My poetry professor asked me to read Songs of Innocence by William Blake and then to reflect on my own poem?
He wants to know what I learned about my poetry from William Blake's. I'm not asking for you to do this for me I'm just asking for maybe a little nudge in the right direction.
This Is my poem:
Nineteen lights I count them all.
Nineteen lights across this hall.
She walks me fast, she knows me well.
She walks me to my dark dull cell.
She straps me down, she straps me tight.
She knows I will not sleep tonight.
She locks the door so silently.
She’s so quiet unlike me.
The walls in this cell padding me.
The walls in this cell pad in my screams.
I scream in terror, it’s no ploy.
I’m screaming for my baby boy.
One day they’ll free me, when will it come?
The day I’ll go back where I’m from.
Not a visit, no not for me.
That’s just one big fantasy.
“They don’t miss me.” “They don’t care.”
These are words my mind cannot bare.
I know they miss me and when my time is done
He’ll be waiting, I know my son.
good poem.
i had to write a final on those poems, haha. so id like to say im pretty good w/ this topic....
well Blake's songs are all about spirituality, symbolism, & the obvious innocence vs. experience. i guess i dont really see your poem connecting with Blake's. make it more in one clear particular view, either innocence or experience, or 1/2 & 1/2... but it must be clear which view is which. use symbols involving nature, the earth, animals, life, to compare to your personal view of spirituality
