![]() ![]() Word choice is very important to the author. I think that the use of visual imagery emphasizes the infinity of Blake’s imagination. We can make the conclusions that Blake pays more attention to the visual characteristics in the Song of Experience. ![]() An example of visual imagery of the Nurse’s Song in the Experience: “my face turns green and pale” (Blake, p. In the Nurse’s Song of the Innocence we can find more visual imagery than in the Nurse’s Song of the Experience: ”in the sky the little birds fly” “the hills are all coverd with sheep” (Blake, p. The last quatrain presents a consistent visual imagery: Visual imagery of the Introduction of Experience: the Bard, that walked among the ancient trees “fallen, fallen light renew” (Blake, p. In the Introduction of Innocence we find such examples as “Piping down the valleys wild, piping songs of pleasant glee, on a cloud I saw a child” (Blake, p. Analyzing the Introductions we can notice that the Introduction of Experience contains more visual imagery than the Introduction of Innocence. Visual imagery is the most important characteristic of both works. ![]() Analyzing works of William Blake, we can find such characteristics as visual imagery, kinetic imagery, personification and metaphor. Imagery as a set of mental pictures or images is the main characteristic of poetry. ![]()
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