Holy Thursday (Song of Experience) Quotes
Exp: Here, Blake points out England’s failure. Though England is a rich country, so many children suffer here. Because people are selfish. They do not truly care for the poor orphaned children.Is this a holy thing to see
In a rich and fruitful land,
Babes reduced to misery
Fed with cold and usurous hand?
Exp: The speaker thinks England must be a poor country. Otherwise, so many children would not be poor and hungry.And so many children poor?
It is a land of poverty!
Exp: This stanza is a powerful metaphor. Here, Blake compares the children’s misery to a barren land. Nothing grows in this barren land. The sun does not shine there, and rain never falls. It is like an endless winter there, full of sadness and suffering.And their sun does never shine.
And their fields are bleak & bare.
And their ways are fill'd with thorns
It is eternal winter there.