Watching sad movies makes me cry. Just seeing the hurt in those people and hearing the grief in their voice makes me feel their pain too. What Blake says in this poem is very similar. Seeing people in sorrow, and watching them shed a tear is hard to do without somehow connecting with how they’re feeling. How can anyone see someone in pain and not feel anything? Blake asks how a parent could see their own child weep and not be filled with sadness. Seeing someone in sorrow, especially when that person is someone you care about, will in turn bring you sorrow.
Towards the end of the poem, Blake relates this to God. He sees so many of us suffering and in pain and it makes Him sad. When we shed a tear, He does too. It also talks about how He gives “His joy to us all in an infant so small”, to help us find relief. He will never just sit there while we dwell in our sorrow, when he can easily wipe away our tears. Until our grief is gone, He will be with us and weep. “He doth give his joy to all: He becomes an infant small, He becomes a man of woe, He doth feel the sorrow too.” Here, Blake talks about God’s solution for man’s sorrow. To bring joy to the world, he sent his son as an ‘infant small’, who became a man, a man who could ‘feel the sorrow too’.
When people are struggling with the obstacles in their life it’s easy to simply feel bad for them, but it’s another to actually try and help them. When you hear the infant cry, don’t continue to let it cry, but sit beside and hold them, giving them comfort. Sometimes it’s enough to simply to empathize with someone and what they’re struggling with. All they need is someone to be there for them, to know that someone cares.
The poem ends saying how God gives to us His joy, so that we too may be happy and be rid of our grief. Until then, He will sit by our sides and moan as we moan, feeling all of the hurt that we feel. So when in sorrow, you are never really alone.
Towards the end of the poem, Blake relates this to God. He sees so many of us suffering and in pain and it makes Him sad. When we shed a tear, He does too. It also talks about how He gives “His joy to us all in an infant so small”, to help us find relief. He will never just sit there while we dwell in our sorrow, when he can easily wipe away our tears. Until our grief is gone, He will be with us and weep. “He doth give his joy to all: He becomes an infant small, He becomes a man of woe, He doth feel the sorrow too.” Here, Blake talks about God’s solution for man’s sorrow. To bring joy to the world, he sent his son as an ‘infant small’, who became a man, a man who could ‘feel the sorrow too’.
When people are struggling with the obstacles in their life it’s easy to simply feel bad for them, but it’s another to actually try and help them. When you hear the infant cry, don’t continue to let it cry, but sit beside and hold them, giving them comfort. Sometimes it’s enough to simply to empathize with someone and what they’re struggling with. All they need is someone to be there for them, to know that someone cares.
The poem ends saying how God gives to us His joy, so that we too may be happy and be rid of our grief. Until then, He will sit by our sides and moan as we moan, feeling all of the hurt that we feel. So when in sorrow, you are never really alone.
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