Hello All,
For this post, read William Blake's "Auguries of Innocence" and then pose a question as if you were writing a list of questions for students to answer regarding this poem. The question could concern a literary device, an image, a turn of phrase, or a theme/idea/meaning.
Again, just pose one question, but make sure that your question is not the same as someone else's (read the previous questions your fellow students have posted, unless you're the first, in which case, good work!).
What was the meaning behind the author giving us so many examples of bound and mistreated animals throughout the first half of the poem?
ReplyDeleteLindsay Davis
What is William Blake saying in these two stanzas?
ReplyDeleteHe who mocks the infant's faith
Shall be mock'd in age and death.
He who shall teach the child to doubt
The rotting grave shall ne'er get out.
He who respects the infant's faith
Triumphs over hell and death.
The child's toys and the old man's reasons
Are the fruits of the two seasons
Jaime Nelson
What is the significance of the last two stanzas to the rest of the poem?
ReplyDeleteSharena Gonder
Wow. What motivated the author to write this?
ReplyDeleteWhich literary term describing how poetry is written is used in these two lines:
ReplyDeleteHe who shall train the horse to war
Shall never pass the polar bar.
Throughout the poem Blake uses different anaphoras in each stanza.
ReplyDeleteIs there a symbolic meaning to the anaphoras or are they used simply for poetic structure?
-Carmen M.
What is the significance of the rhyme scheme Blake utilizes through the entirety of the poem?
ReplyDelete-Edgar Moreno
What is the author trying to say when he says:
ReplyDeleteThe poison of the honey bee
Is the artist's jealousy.
Nancy Reyes
What is the author trying to say in these stanzas?
ReplyDeleteEvery night and every morn
Some to misery are born,
Every morn and every night
Some are born to sweet delight.
Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night.
what extended metaphor is said in the first stanza and what is the reason for it?
ReplyDeleteMarlyce Haugen
In the last four stanzas of the poem, what do night and day symbolize or represent?
ReplyDeleteDakota Warren
What does the author mean in the following stanza?
ReplyDeleteIt is right it should be so;
Man was made for joy and woe;
And when this we rightly know,
Thro' the world we safely go.
Gloria Gonzalez
Why are some ways Innocence is being brought up in William Blakes poem?
ReplyDeleteGloria Gonzalez
How is the title "Auguries of Innocence" relevant to the poem?
ReplyDelete-Elizabeth Fernandez
Blake introduces the idea of heaven throughout the poem. What is its significance in his work?
ReplyDeleteThe gnat that sings his summer's song
ReplyDeletePoison gets from slander's tongue.
The poison of the snake and newt
Is the sweat of envy's foot.
What is the author saying in this stanza? Does it have any significant meaning?
What is the significance of the first stanza?
ReplyDeleteTo see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
-V. Zamago
Why was parallelism used the most in the last few stanzas?
ReplyDeleteIn lines 5-6,"A Robin redbreast in a cage puts all heaven's in a rage." What is the meaning of this quote or why would the heaven's be in a rage?
ReplyDeleteWhy do you feel Blake uses so many forms of imagery to help portray the meaning of his poem?
ReplyDeleteRenelle Gisyer
Why are animals used as the imagery to help relate to heaven and god?
ReplyDeleteGod appears, and God is light,
ReplyDeleteTo those poor souls who dwell in night;
But does a human form display
To those who dwell in realms of day.
What is Blake mean in these final stanza's about God and humans?
-breane brothers
What is the rhyme scheme used in this poem?
ReplyDeleteAlejandro Morales
Why does Blake utilize personification in his poem and what does it signify?
ReplyDelete-Yareli Lopez
what is significance on this stanza?
ReplyDeleteThe wanton boy that kills the fly
Shall feel the spider's enmity.
He who torments the chafer's sprite
Weaves a bower in endless night.
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ReplyDeletereading this poem id ask, "what did william blake see or who he knew lived the life described in this poem?"
ReplyDeletemanuel gutierrez
Does the poem represent the life of someone who never truly lives their life?
ReplyDelete-Joni Lagerstrom
What does the author mean by:
ReplyDeleteThe winner's shout, the loser's curse,
Dance before dead England's hearse. ?
Maria G.
What does the following metaphor mean..."To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower...?"
ReplyDeleteMaria Zuniga
Is William Blake blaming God/religion for the problems in this world?
ReplyDelete-Bryan Lainez
"A robin redbreast in a cage
ReplyDeletePuts all heaven in a rage"
What does this mean?
Leo Contreras.
Why does Blake include conflict within the animal kingdom in his poem "Auguries of Innocence"
ReplyDeleteEzekiel V. Espanola
Why does William Blake keep refering to animals in almost all of his stanzas?
ReplyDeleteAlfredo Moreno
what is the significance of Blake's desccription of the innocent's hardships (such as the examples used of the animals and humans)and the main idea hes trying to get across to his readers?
ReplyDeleteJoy and woe are woven fine,
ReplyDeleteA clothing for the soul divine.
Under every grief and pine
Runs a joy with silken twine.
In this stanza, what images come to mind and does this relate to any literary terms we have learned in class?
Why kind of rhyme does the poet use in this poem? Why?
ReplyDeleteNathalie
Why does Blake speak in 3rd person?
ReplyDeleteAround what time was this poem written in?
ReplyDeleteWhat country is this author from because it's hard to understand the wording of it.