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‘Auguries of Innocence’ by William Blake is a poem describing the contrast between innocence and experience, by using paradox and epigram.
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To those poor Souls who dwell in Night. But does a Human Form Display. To those who Dwell in Realms of day. Written in around 1803, ‘Auguries of Innocence’ offers various images of innocence, juxtaposing them with images of corruption, decay, or evil.
Auguries of Innocence. Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1863. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. Download PDF.
“The Auguries of Innocence” is a series of couplets that most Blake scholars and biographers agree were written in no particular order, but just gathered as such for printing in about 1803, a decade after “Songs of Innocence and Experience.”
Auguries of Innocence. Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1863. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. Download PDF.
“Auguries of Innocence” begins with four alternately rhymed lines questioning the absolute nature of space and time. According to these opening lines, one can “see a World in a Grain of Sand,”...
Technical analysis of Auguries of Innocence literary devices and the technique of William Blake
