Comparison and Contrast Of Infant Joy and Infant Sorrow
The poems of Infant Joy and Infant Sorrow have similiarities a normal reader cannot comprehend. The two babies are coming into a world where he or she does not understand, yet. The author uses characterization in both poems to describe its own. Meaning that Infant Joy experience glee and Infant Sorrow experience misery. In Infant Joy and Infant Sorrow, William Blake uses another literary device which is connotation. He connects Infant Sorrow to a society sometimes without morals, without meaning and without standards. Connecting Infant Joy to a society sometimes with righteousness, with morals, and intention to do good. These poems may have a story to tell with the comparison and saying Infant Joy was Infant Sorrow. In Lines 1 through 8 of Infant Sorrow,the baby is just coming into the world crying, screaming, and needing something to be calm. That is why in Line 1, Joy has no name and two days old. Because Joy does not remember and had no choice but to forget what was going on and