Blakes View on Oppression of Children by Adults Essay -- William Blak

Blakes View on Oppression of Children by AdultsBlake was a poet who wrote in the Romantic period. He had idealisticviews about life, and believed that the traditional nation way oflife was the best way to live. He despised the labor that wasestablishing itself in England because it was the oppo devolve one of theideal farming lifestyle that Blake idealised. The idea that Blakebelieved that children were suppress is an interesting one, because,there be a number of poems which suggest contrary ideas about thistopic. The poems that I will be using to address this unloosen are TheEchoing Green, Nurses Song, from white and the Nurses Song,from experience.The Echoing green, is quite a irrefutable poem. The image of the sunrising The sun does rise, on the first pass symbolises new lifebeginning and immediately establishes a positive fortify to the poem. Inthe second stanza Blake writes,Such, such were the joysWhen we were all, girls and boys,In our youth time were seenOn the repe at green.This image shows that the memories of the sure-enough(a) people when they werechildren are of the joysOn the echoing green. This doesnt suggestthat they as children were oppressed. The use of the word joy, showsthat people were bright to see them playing, and that they were happytoo.Blake uses an image of children sitting about their mothers knee, hewrites,Round the laps of their mothersMany sisters and brothers.This image of children around their mothers knee is an image ofsecurity and safety. The fact that they feel they can sit about theknee of their mother, in this stereotypical image of a happy familydoesnt suggest that the children in this poem are oppressed... ...y has a contradict view of the childish desire forplay which clearly has an effect on the children. The fact that theythe are whispering shows that they are afraid of the bear, and thatthey cannot express their professedly thoughts and desires freely, which iswhy they whisper, and therefore shows that Blake feels that childrenare oppressed.I feel that the two poems from innocence which are The EchoingGreen, and The Nurses Song, display Blakes ideological view ofcountry life which I referred to in my introduction, and show hisdesire for childhood to be enjoyed. But the Nurses Song, formexperience shows the reality of life that it is hard, and people,like the nurse in the song arent happy and full of joy, like thememories of the old people in The Echoing Green, and therefore,Blakes poetry confirms the view that children are oppressed by