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Infant sorrow by blake annotations

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life of infant -

dynamic verb suggests child has
agency
INFANT SORROW
'
th
'
London
the oppressive world
to escape sorrowful + .




trying

first person child narrator
'

voice
Infant joy
'
childbirth ?
unlike in
anguish
-

• Verb =

Ba child


/
unheard
-

us context control
/
aware of their
.

+
is aceuateiy determiners =
defined by
his parents
1-0 repeated
birth possessive
suffering from
My mother groaned, my father wept! Ravens + exclamatory fear
=




contraception
+ misery

burden of China
context
,
.
no

mortality
-


high infant
Into the dangerous world I leapt, -


hardship of life
:
child labour




telling adjective hostile
+ iwona
fearful
=
a.
worldview
-

child has adopted its parents cynical
Helpless, naked, piping loud, .
traouc list of adjective
µ
-

suggests vulnerability
'

loud
'
impression of discordant noise -
Childs screaming .




piping =
-




Like a fiend hid in a cloud.
' '

the introduce is corrupted
-
the pleasant piping of

instinct
imbodyment of energy
evil but an and .



not
a.
-
simile =
impurity . For Blake a
fiend was


hide '= suppression ;
'

verb
' '
the divine child in ' Introduction '

implies this child has been reduced +
entrapped by
.
Cloud = echo of =


contrast .

non
finale verbs = resistance against oppression

Struggling in my father’s hands, -
☒ patriarch force of subjugation to restrict child




Striving against my swaddling bands, →
symbolic of oppression and restriction .




-
Bound and weary, I thought best
' Minnie sense of agency - thinking independently

To sulk upon my mother’s breast.
±
.
/ m with nurture
-
usually associated
Passive act that
suggests reluctant ness milk , is
nurture associated with a mothers
conventional expectation of ,

• subverted to reflect a state of sorrow . The reluctant compliance of

restrictiveness with expectations of a
corrupted state of experience
me child
+
resignation t
frustration =
weighed down
by misery is shocking as children are usually associated with innocence
-




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