“Auguries Of Innocence” By William Blake

“Auguries Of Innocence” By William Blake

‘Auguries of Innocence’ opens with a philosophical touch of describing infinity and eternity, relating a part to its whole, and turning the abstract into concrete. Under the biblical influence kindness to animals and children is the major theme and Blake shifts many times to the theme of corruption besetting the English society of his day.

For an innocent child, he is all love and kindness. He says that the innocence and simplicity of children should not be laughed at. Evil ways of English society of his age have also been criticized. Blake says the corruption is leading England to its death. In a sweeping and causal manner, he passes remarks, the remarks of a reformer, on different aspects of human behavior. The underlying idea is the idea of warning mankind of the unhappy outcome of such behavior. He talks of punishment for evil and reward for virtue.

He paints a gloomy picture of poverty and ignorance the English people of his time were suffering. He talks about a strange phenomenon of birth. Some are born to rich and cultured parents who live in comfort and opulence and are born into poor and ignorant families destined to live in a perpetual hell of darkness and poverty. There are topics of doubt, lie, deceit, pride, childhood, old age, joy and sorrow, love and jealousy, dealt with, with broad bold sweeps of an experienced artist.

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Every couplet entails a moral lesson and serves with a warning of impending punishment for the misdeed or cruel act. Critical Analysis Of “Auguries Of Innocence” is an ethical code with many pieces of practical advice, and the wise counsel of a sage and a saint.

In the best of his songs, Blake developed his characteristic lyric technique of compressed metaphor and symbols which explode into the multiplicity of meanings adding: obscurity to thought in some cases. He gradually developed and integrated his symbol into extensive mythology of his own devising.” I should make framework”, he stated, “or be oppressed by another Man’s.”

In Blake’s intuitive swift flights of imagination, words Tag behind his thought and expression. He leaves the reader in a maze of obviously unrelated signals. The idea is, in this manner, so mystified that decoding language to reach it is quite a baffling and futile exercise. Barring some parts of ‘Auguries of Innocence, the couplets in the poem have a simple language. Mono-syllabic words in iambic tetrameter in the first line move slowly and heavily with distinct accents:

‘TO those poor souls who dwell in night’.

Monosyllables move more heavily in

‘Every morn and every night

some are born to sweet delight.’

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