The grief in one’s life
Have you ever read poems that had sad stories involved? Authors such as William Blake and Lydia Davis talk about grief in their poems. According to Merriam- Webster dictionary, the definition of grief is “deep and poignant distress caused by or as if by bereavement”. In William Blake’s song of experience, “The Chimney Sweeper” the poem describes a boy grieving for his parents who left him in the snow. In Lydia Davis’s “Head, Heart” explain the feeling of grief between two people and how it is not easy to move on. Both the poems discuss loss of a loved one and they want people to know that there are different types of grief between the two poems. There are several literary techniques shows how both William Blake and Lydia Davis’s poem have a common theme of grief by using techniques such as imagery, figures of speech, symbolism, thematic/narrative elements.
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In the second stanza of William’s Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper”, the boy describes the things his parents have done and how he feels about his parents’ betrayal that caused him grief. The boy describes the outfit his parents left him in as clothes of death. The boy states, “They clothed me in the clothes of death” (Blake 7) the line meant that his parents who left him there were leaving the boy there to die because the clothes of death are for people who are left to die. In addition, the boy speaks about his parents; do not think they had hurt him in any way possible for what they did. The boy states “And because I am happy and dance and sing, they think they have done me no injury.” (Blake 10&11), even though he acts as if he is happy, he knows how badly he is treated. His parents think he is fine however; the boy is actually grieving over what had happened to him. Likewise, In “Head, Heart” the symbolism found is head and heart. Head represents the helping person and the heart represents the grieving person in the