The main metaphor of the Nurse’s Song is the image of Nurse as the metaphor of Nature which cares about her children – people. “The morning appears in the skies” (Blake, p. The use of personification helps to create the whole picture and to add the action.Īll poems are full of metaphors: “the Holy Word walked among the trees, calling the lapsed soul and weeping in the evening dew” “the Holy Word might control the starry pole” (Blake, p. In the poems we can find the following examples: “the days rise”, “the morning appears”, “sun is gone”, “Earth returns and arises”, “the morn rises”, “light fades away” (Blake, pp. He prefers to use personification to show the vitality of the lifeless things. However, Blake doesn’t use this imagery often. “The Holy Word” of the Introduction of the Song of Experience is an example of the kinetic imagery. He treats them as live beings which can coexist only in cooperation with other live creatures (Farrell, p. Word choice is very important to the author. I think that the use of visual imagery emphasizes the infinity of Blake’s imagination. We can make the conclusions that Blake pays more attention to the visual characteristics in the Song of Experience. An example of visual imagery of the Nurse’s Song in the Experience: “my face turns green and pale” (Blake, p. In the Nurse’s Song of the Innocence we can find more visual imagery than in the Nurse’s Song of the Experience: ”in the sky the little birds fly” “the hills are all coverd with sheep” (Blake, p.
The last quatrain presents a consistent visual imagery:
Visual imagery of the Introduction of Experience: the Bard, that walked among the ancient trees “fallen, fallen light renew” (Blake, p. In the Introduction of Innocence we find such examples as “Piping down the valleys wild, piping songs of pleasant glee, on a cloud I saw a child” (Blake, p. Analyzing the Introductions we can notice that the Introduction of Experience contains more visual imagery than the Introduction of Innocence.
Visual imagery is the most important characteristic of both works. Analyzing works of William Blake, we can find such characteristics as visual imagery, kinetic imagery, personification and metaphor. Imagery as a set of mental pictures or images is the main characteristic of poetry.
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