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Friday, December 24, 2010

A Little Boy Lost By William Blake


The poem “A Lost Little Boy”, by Blake, was about a little boy who knows too much for his own good. As far the boy knows is nothing as his own father is leading him to his own fate? Why was it the boy not given a chance? Just a priest choice to end fate. The boy was accused of an act of cursing or reviling God which is known as a blasphemy by the priest because of what the priest had heard. The father himself had the boy follow him till his death await. The boy was still wondering where they both were heading and kept asking, "Father where they are going". When dead had came, his Father sat and weep as his son was placed in a chair to be burned to death. This was the ruling it’s self of the King and the Church back then and how it is today. Blasphemy was not allowed back then and was ruled illegal in cases. To the priest, the boy was found guilty of blasphemy and was thought of what he had heard was theory of blasphemy. The boy was never given the chance of the reason before his death, which was very uncertain and ruling. To William Blake's vision of this poem was found of a cruel and an unusual death upon a child. William Blake himself saw this as the body as Jesus Christ. This was found with no freedom the boy, and was only accused and was never found this to be true. Was the boy found as a religious symbol in Blake's Vision? Yes, to all religious symbols, the child was found as a religious symbol, because it relates to the death of Christ. He was to burn with all who have died in this holy place. Are such thing done on Albion's shore?


Sources:
Poem:
http://www.blackcatpoems.com/b/a_little_boy_lost.html
Image:
http://www.rositour.it/Arte/Blake William/Illustrazioni/SIE/SIE 13_The little boy lost.jpg

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