Nurse's Song by William Blake
The Troubadour Podcast
English - March 01, 2020 13:00 - 20 minutes - 14.3 MBBooks Arts Health & Fitness poetry literature literature and life historical stories wisdom of the ages Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This is a great example of William Blake's expression of the dialectic process. There are two nurse's songs in Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience. Each one reveals the inner feelings of a nurse as she is watching over a group of her wards. Each poem is in contrast to the other and speaking through the other.
This is a shorter episode because these poems are both more on the surface. But they are valuable to understanding Blake's book as a whole.