Topic today: songs of innocence questions and answers
songs of innocence questions and answers
Brief Questions and Answers
Introduction
1. What conventional figures of innocence are introduced in Introduction to Songs of Innocence?
Ans: The poem introduces us to conventional figures of innocence: a shepherd with his pipe, and a child in a rural setting.
2. Who is the piper referred to in Introduction to Songs of Innocence?
Ans: The piper referred to in this poem is the poet Blake himself.
3. What did the poet do while wandering through the valleys?
Ans: He was piping songs of joy on his pipe while wandering through the valleys.
4. What did the poet see in his vision while piping songs of joy on his pipe?
Ans: In his vision he saw a child on a cloud while piping songs of joy on his pipe.
5. What kind of child did the poet see on a cloud?
Ans: The poet saw a mystic child on a cloud.
6. What does the child on a cloud represent?
Ans: The child may refer to Jesus Christ who speaks from a cloud i.e. heaven or it may be an angel representing innocence.
7. What does the “Lamb” symbolize?
Ans: The “Lamp” symbolizes innocence and Christ.
The Lamb
1. Why is The Lamb the most significant poem in the section of Innocence?
Ans: Because it extends the world of innocence to the animals.
2. What does the child ask the lamb?
Ans: The child asks the lamb who its Creator is.
3. How is the wool of the lamb?
Ans: The lamb has bright, soft and warm wool.
4. Who is called by the name of the lamb?
Ans: The Creator of the lamb is called by the name of the lamb.
5. Why is Christ regarded as God?
Ans: Since Christ is known by God’s name, he is regarded as God.
6. What does the “Lamb” symbolize?
Ans: The lamb is a symbol of Christ.
The Chimney Sweeper
1. What is a chimney sweeper?
Ans: A chimney sweeper is a young boy who was sent up a chimney with a brush to sweep away the soot that had accumulated on the inner walls of the chimney.
2. Who is Tom Dacre?
Ans: He is a fellow chimney sweeper of the speaker of the poem.
3. Why were the heads of the chimney sweepers shaved?
Ans: Their heads were shaved in order to avoid risk of their hair catching fire.
4. When did Tom Dacre cry/ shout?
Ans: Tom Dacre cried/ shouted when the curly hair of his head was shaved.
5. Why is Tom’s hair compared to the wool of a lamb?
Ans: Tom’s hair is compared to the wool of a lamb in order to signify the innocence of the little chimney sweepers.
6. What is the moral of the poem The Chimney Sweeper?
Ans: The moral of the poem is that no harm comes to him who does not neglect his duty.
Nurse’s Song
1. What is the Nurse doing?
Ans: The Nurse is looking after the children who are playing.
2. How is the Nurse?
Ans: The Nurse is kind hearted.
3. What does the Nurse ask the children?
Ans: The Nurse asks the children to stop playing.
4. Why does the Nurse ask the children to stop playing?
Ans: The Nurse asks the children to stop playing because at that time the sun is set and the dews of the night are beginning to fall.
5. On what grounds do the children want to play some time more?
Ans: They want to play some time more on the grounds that the little birds are still seen flying about in the air, and the sheep are still grazing on the hillside.
6. Why does the Nurse allow the children to play a little longer?
Ans: The Nurse kind-hearted. She allows the children to play a little longer to win love and confidence of the children.
7. How does Nurse’s Song foreshadow the impending change into experience?
Ans: The poem foreshadows the impending change into experience through the Nurse’s authority over the children.
Holy Thursday
1. What is a Holy Thursday?
Ans: It is Ascension Day, that is, on that day Christ rose from his grave and ascended to heaven.
2. Where were the children of the charity schools going on a Holy Thursday?
Ans: They were going to St. Paul’s Cathedral.
3. Why were the children going to St. Paul’s Cathedral?
Ans: They were going to St. Paul’s Cathedral to offer thanks to God.
4. How were the children going to St. Paul’s Cathedral?
Ans: They were going to St. Paul’s Cathedral in lines of two wearing dresses of red and blue and green colours.
5. Why were the children going to St. Paul’s Cathedral to offer thanks to God?
Ans: They were going to St. Paul’s Cathedral to offer thanks to God for the so called blessings which they received from the patrons of the charity schools.
6. What do the white “wands” of the church official symbolize?
Ans: The colour of the wands (rods) symbolizes purity. But wands are used to hit the children if they disobey the church officials, so the wands symbolize the suppression of the freedom of the children.
7. Who are the flowers of London town?
Ans: The poet metaphorically refers to the children who went to St. Paul’s Cathedral as the flowers of London town.
8. Why the children are called “multitudes of lambs?
Ans: The poet metaphorically compares the huge number of children to lambs because of their qualities of innocence and meekness.
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