Infant Joy and London

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Infant Joy is taken from the collection of Songs of Innocence, and thus we can find the elements of innocence and carefree hovering in the poem.Infant Joy is an imagined dialogue between a mother and her child, who is ‘just two days old’. As yet, the chil d is un-named: the mother asks ‘What shall I call thee?’ and is told simply that ‘I happy am’ and that therefore ‘Joy is my name’. The mother wil lingly accepts this suggestion. Also it shows how life should be ideal and reflects the open ended nuances of the human condition.
London is taken from Songs of Experience does far more than describe the city in which William Blake lived for most of his life and it points out that London is the only poem from its collection without an innocent pair. The poem is a devastating and concise political analysis, delivered with passionate anger, revealing the complex connections between patterns of ownership and the ruling ideology, the way all human relations are inescapably bound together within a single destructive society. However, this poem talks about the real life and it shows not only the complaints about industrial culture and capitalism, but also people's thirst to democracy. All in all, the two poetries all show contrary sides of human soul and life.
Baby in Infant Joy is happy, carefree and hopeful, but in London is sad, weak and fear.
Blake thinks that children should be happy and parents should sing to children, treating children well. Blake wishes for a continuation of the happy to baby and considers that baby will have a bright and hopeful future at this time.
The poem of Infant Joy makes me feel comfortable and have a lot of positive emotions for the baby is so happy, naïve and innocent. The poem of London, however, makes me so upset, bored and sympathetic.。