I have some problems with understanding the meaning of "Auguries of Innocence" by William Blake and I need links to pages where I can find some explanations. I'm preparing to a recitation of this poem and I'd like to know what is it about. Anybody knows any good pages? I am grateful in advance.

Mariusz

Mariusz, go to the Search option in Homework Assistance and search for 'auguries', and you'll find some links given in response to similar questions in the past.

Do the same search in General Discussion to find a few more comments on the poem.

Here you go:

<[www.emule.com]>

[www.cs.rice.edu]

Les

Hi,

I have to do an exercise in Romantic Poetry, about William Blacke's Auguries of innocence (first four lines), and Alfred , Lord Tennyson's poem "Flower in the crannied wall".
I got two questions:
1. What general theme do these two Romantic poems have in common?
2. What specific elements make them Romantic in style?
Anybody knows any pages about this theme?
Thank You in advance.
Paul

Paul, you first of all should know what generally characterized Romanticism. If you're not sure go here:

[academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu]

Here's the Blake passage:

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

and here is the Tennyson:

Flower in the Crannied Wall

FLOWER in the crannied wall,
I pluck you out of the crannies,
I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
Little flower--but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, all in all,
I should know what God and man is.


Topics which you might include in your discussion of the subject:

1. The writer's views on imagination 2. His views of nature. 3. His views about God/Supernatural


Les



Post Edited (07-17-04 07:43)

>Anybody knows any pages about this theme?

[eir.library.utoronto.ca]


[www.cs.rice.edu]

(O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer,
Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?)

Hi,

How about this one? It helped me!

[www.sparknotes.com]