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 experience happiness. Although this is satisfying, Infant Joy now becomes Adult Joy and realizes bad in the world. Recognizing there is another side, Adult Sorrow. Signifying a person can be happy and sad at times.
   However,these two poems differentiate. In Infant Sorrow,William Blake uses another literary device which is cacophony. Cacophony touches on strong, harsh sounds creating a disturbing atmosphere.In Line 1, he uses groaned and wept to make sure the reader understands how much the mother was in pain waiting for it to be over and how the father could not to see the baby. In Line 3, he uses the word "loud" stressing how we can only hear the loudest person gaining attention, but not the quietest person needing help. Infant Sorrow symbolizes a world that does not want to be helped if nothing can be. Finally,William Blake wrote Infant Joy representing a person can be just as happy. In lines 10-11,the words "smile" and "sing" indicates how we must smile, sing, dance, etc to bring us satisfaction and not harm.

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