Poem Analysis: The Little Boy Lost vs. The Little
Girl Lost
Zachariah Acree
A. Hausser
ENG 206
June 25, 2013
“The Little BOY Lost” vs. “The Little Girl Lost” A belief of envisioning a future to seek your creator is a task many people, young or old, continue to accomplish today. William Blake’s two poems from Songs of Experience: “The Little BOY Lost” and “The Little Girl Lost” recognizes two children of different genders living through a time of need. The narrator in these two poems lecture through an era of mixed emotions and opinions the little boy and girl witnessed. The setting of “The Little BOY Lost” takes place in a location with a community of people, and “The Little Girl Lost” is portrayed in the wilderness alone. In addition, his poems feature a child as the inquiring human spirit. The two children in Blake’s poems reveal similar beliefs involving their creator; however, the children are looked upon differently from their surrounding environment and they are each in a setting where their actions determine their passing of life. In both poems Blake expresses each narrator viewing a similar imagination of their inner-soul, which in the end leads to their passing of life. Each poem opens with symbolizing their communication toward their creator. The narrator of the little boy believes in titling his inventor as “Father” (line 5) and for Lyca (the little girl); “her maker” (6). First, the boy questionably asks his Father how he could love something “greater than itself” (4). Believing to recognize that love is at first selfish, that no one seems capable of loving another more than himself. In a different opinion Lyca initiates to “arise and seek” (5) for her maker. Showing, without question, she trusts every moment of her life in her creators plans. The narrator interprets Lyca wandering into the wild as it becomes a “garden” (8). Illustrating positive hints are taking place in her belief. The boy continues to vent that he can only love his Father like a bird that “picks up crumbs around the
A. Hausser
ENG 206
June 25, 2013
“The Little BOY Lost” vs. “The Little Girl Lost” A belief of envisioning a future to seek your creator is a task many people, young or old, continue to accomplish today. William Blake’s two poems from Songs of Experience: “The Little BOY Lost” and “The Little Girl Lost” recognizes two children of different genders living through a time of need. The narrator in these two poems lecture through an era of mixed emotions and opinions the little boy and girl witnessed. The setting of “The Little BOY Lost” takes place in a location with a community of people, and “The Little Girl Lost” is portrayed in the wilderness alone. In addition, his poems feature a child as the inquiring human spirit. The two children in Blake’s poems reveal similar beliefs involving their creator; however, the children are looked upon differently from their surrounding environment and they are each in a setting where their actions determine their passing of life. In both poems Blake expresses each narrator viewing a similar imagination of their inner-soul, which in the end leads to their passing of life. Each poem opens with symbolizing their communication toward their creator. The narrator of the little boy believes in titling his inventor as “Father” (line 5) and for Lyca (the little girl); “her maker” (6). First, the boy questionably asks his Father how he could love something “greater than itself” (4). Believing to recognize that love is at first selfish, that no one seems capable of loving another more than himself. In a different opinion Lyca initiates to “arise and seek” (5) for her maker. Showing, without question, she trusts every moment of her life in her creators plans. The narrator interprets Lyca wandering into the wild as it becomes a “garden” (8). Illustrating positive hints are taking place in her belief. The boy continues to vent that he can only love his Father like a bird that “picks up crumbs around the