The Poems of William Blake

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spring by William black

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Blake begins the seasonal cycle poems in spring, personified as an angelic male figure with “dewy locks,” “angel eyes,” “holy feet,” and “perfumed garments.” The earth is represented as a female, maturing to an age of sexual willingness. The speaker is asking for the male angel spring to come down to earth and prepare to sow the seed of a new cycle. Again, morning represents the new day of light (experience) and the speaker is inviting his spring angel to “scatter thy pearls / upon our lovesick land” hoping to inspire a new commitment to emotion across England (“our western isle”) rather than everything being done for reason or sense. He speaker asserts that spring is dawn, the new beginning, and during this season, there is an overall hope that primal unity and innocence will withhold the tyrannical influence of experience. The mood of this poem is hope (lines 6-7). After winter’s tough temperament of scorn, spring is a season that offers the land a fresh new rising to do away with what has been learned and experience nature with fresh, innocent eyes.

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