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Analysis and comments on Infant Sorrow by William Blake

Comment 2 of 2, added on April 17th, 2006 at 11:13 AM.

this poem expresses how children are repressed from the very moment they are born from the people closest to them their parents. Blake argues that complexity of thinking and years of age are not defining characteristics of experience. And the sad truth that before the infant has really lived long enough to experience anything they still experienced sorrow during its first experience with the world.

natasha h from United Kingdom
Comment 1 of 2, added on March 20th, 2006 at 9:28 AM.

I think this poem is excellent and the line 'sulk upon my mothers breast' is one of the best lines Blake has ever written.

Thankyou and good day

Kristen from United Kingdom



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Poet: William Blake
Poem: Infant Sorrow
Volume: Songs of Experience
Year: 1789
Added: Feb 20 2003
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