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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelIn this thesis, the writer prefers to analyze
Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
because she is interested in the idea of children's
life as revealed by the poet, William Blake in these
two Songs. Blake as a Romantic poet combines his imagination
on the vision of the so-called ideal childhood
and the reality of children's life in the eighteenth
century. He sees that children's life in reality is far
from the ideal one, in which children are happy and
joyful, filled with parental love and protection and
peace, and they live with their spontaneity and freedom.
The analysis of the so-called ideal childhood
will be on ^introduction", "The Echoing Green", "The
Little Black Boy", "Laughing Song", "Nurse's Song", and
^Spring^" in Songs of Innocence. It is continued by the
analysis on Blake's portrayal of children's life in
reality as seen in "The Little Black Boy", "The Chimney
Sweeper", "The Little Boy Lost", "Holy Thursday" in
Songs of Innocence, and "The Chimney Sweeper", "The
Little Boy Lost", "The School Boy" in Songs of Experience.
This thesis will illustrate the feeling of
the children who undergo the different situations, in
the ideal life and in reality. The result of this
thesis can be used as the comment of poor children's
life nowadays as it commented the one in the eighteenth
century.