Another's Sorrow William Blake

January 15, 2022

Another's Sorrow

About the Poet :

William Blake ( 1757-1827 ) was born i London . He was painter , engraver as well as poet , often combining all his arts in the production of his works . A mystic , Blake often had moments of ecstasy during which he saw visions and wrote under a spell . His rejection of literary tradition , his development of new and energetic mythology , his imaginative exploration of the human psyche and his literary war against restraint and moderation in all forms of human experience mark him as one of the first romantic poets in English Literature . Blake's evangelical mission and apocalyptic vision impelled him to create a new composite art form , consisting of language and design . The verbal and pictorial symbols and images which he created for his system were personal and highly ambiguous.Blake's best work includes . Poetical Sketches ( 1783 ) , Songs of innocence ( 1789 ) , Songs Experience ( 1794 ) and Jerusalem

Poetical Sketches ( 1783 )
Songs of Innocence ( 1789 )
Songs of Experience ( 1794 )
Jerusalem

About the Poem :

The poem is about sympathy and humanity . He compares and describes god as someone who is not far outside of the human experience . The poem starts with the poet talking about another person's pain or grief in general . It then becomes specific when he begins to describe a father's pain , a child's suffering and a mother's grief . The poem is in nine stanzas and follows the 'aabb' rhyme scheme throughout .

Summary

William Blake was born in London. He was a painter, engraver as well as poet. The present poem 'Another's sorrow', written by William Blake is about sympathy and humanity. He compares and describes God as someone who is not far outside of the human experience. The poem divided into two parts. The first three stanza reveal Blake's statement about the human perception of sorrow. In the final six stanzas, Blake not only questions God's position in the sorrows of humans, but also provides his own views of God's involvement in human's plights as well as his own views on religion. The poem starts with the poet talking about another person's pain or grief in general. It then becomes specific when he begins to describe a father's pain, a child's suffering and a mother's grief.

The poem is written in the form of an argument to assert the empathy of Cod for the sufferings of humans. In the first stanza of the poem, the poet asks the questions, 'can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too ? The poet means to say that, If see someone who is sad, how can I not 'be in sorrow too ? If see someone's' grief', how can I not want to do something about it, to' seek for kind relief? Here, the poet wants to suggests us that if the person cannot help to the sufferer but feel sorry for others who are suffering and share in their sorrow. In the second stanza the poet repeat the question, before applying it to a father and he says that if a father cannot help but feel sorrow when his child cries. According to the poet, how father can not be filled with sadness when he sees a falling tear. In the next stanza the poet express the mother grief and helplessness, when the mother hears her infant cry she cannot sit by and listen to it.

The mother is willing to do something about her child who is crying. In the end of the stanza the answer of all questions is the same, 'never can it be !' Here, the poet want to suggests us that in all the suffering human can feel sorrow and want to help the sufferer as well as he feel sorrow for them. In the third stanza of the poem, the poet express a mother's helplessness and grief when the mother hears her infant cry she cannot sit by and listen to it.

The poet asks the question, 'can a mother sit and hear an infant groan, an infant fear ? and he himself gives the answer that, 'No, no ! never can it be l'it suggests us that when one person sees grief of another person, the sympathizer tries to find a way to ease the pain of the sufferer. It is impossible not to sympathize with another person that is in despair. Here, the poet suggests us that parents never find pleasure if their child suffer from pain. In the next stanza of the poem, the poet express God's relation to the mankind. Here, the poet use the pronoun 'He'. It refers to the God.

The God is the caretaker of the mankind and he gives every sort of pleasure to him. He save the mankind from every kind of trouble, He never neglect the sorrow of a little wren. When he heard the woes of that infant who bear the pains, he tried to solve our conflict and remove us from distress. Here the poet says that it may be possible that the God not sit beside the nest of the bird by pouring pity to them. But he do something to seek for kind relief because he loves him, cares him. When the infant is groan and fear, he could not sit near the cradle or he could not weeping tear on an infant's tear but he is trying to wiping all our tears away. He always trying to gives us joy and pleasure. And he does all this by becoming a child. The mankind joys make him happy & his sorrow becomes the cause of his restlessness. The poet thinks that the God gives everything to the mankind by becoming a small child and bears his sufferings as a young man. God feels our sorrow and he never happy whenever he could not saw joy & pleasure in mankind. Here, the poet tells us that we should not think that God is not with us in our difficulty. We should not think that he could not weep a tear and he could not near to us in our difficulty. But he gives us his joy & pleasure whenever our grief may not completely destroy. Whenever mankind's grief and unhappiness is not fled and completely gone, he sit by us and moan on the situation. Here, the poet tells us that He stays with us until we are free from the sufferings.