First romantic poet of the first generation. The Romantic poets are commonly divided
into two generation. The first starts with the outstanding presence of William Blake. He
operates a bit earlier than the beginning of the romantic generation. He’s appreciated
thanks by an Irish poet Yeats. It’s commonly said hat he suffered of a serious mental
illness.
He affirms that the world where we live is very aheart and difficult. One of the most
necessary acknowledge is to understand that the church is responsible of the world’s
fragmentation.
He was very interested into subverting all the aspect of life, particularly the problems
of society. He decides to change his expectation, he is no longer interested in the
future events of the base in every country: recreation of the status quo, the French
Revolution… led him to a diverse opinion. This difference is included into songs of
Innocence.
He was not a religious poet. He’s not religious because he’s not a man of church…
He’s convinced that only poets and children can look with their inner eyes beyond
divine reality.
Imagination is a tool which he uses to codify the world where he lives. He also uses the
illuminate paintings, mages which he engraved in copper to represent the symbols of
his poems.
His description of London is one of the most powerful. When he describes prostitutes
and the sense of solitude and decade. This is the beginning of the implosion of the
future neocapitalism. With the beginning of industrial Revolution women and children
became high priced. These are the negative effect of the industrial Revolution. But all
this was necessary for the prosecution of world history. Exploitation, starvation,
poverty, and oligarchy are all the modern problem which derive from the industrial
Revolution.
Lamb stands for purity, innocence, joy. The title recalls an idea of tender voice. This
poem is something tender, delicate, unexpected in this world, but expectations are on
because lamb is the symbol of a future characterized by joy. Jesus is also called
<<agnello di Dio>>. Powerful believe he has in the future. A lamb characterizes a new
life in world which is governed by clearness, peace, stability, rationality…