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How Does Blake Appeal

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I believe Blake chose many views to appeal to different reader’s emotions. Yet, in the “Songs of Innocence” Blake may have been appealing to the physiological thought of what one may think of innocence such as being youthful, naïve, and hopeful. Blake also makes an illusion that Tom’s white hair is the children’s innocence in line eight, “You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair” (p.121). On the contrary, in Blake’s “Songs of Experience”, the third person aspect appeals to the outsider that sees the child walking by like many people saw during the Romantic Era. Blake may have used this view to guilt or shame onlookers that saw these children daily. Although the views once again change back to first person after the first stanza to
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