 | Don Herzog - History - 2000 - 580 pages
...Perhaps the least innocent of his Songs of Innocence is 'The Little Black Boy," a childlike recital. My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white. White as an angel is the English child: But I am black as if bereav'd of light.... | |
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...mystic and savant, he is convinced that: My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if bereav'd of light. 15 Yet, this is the man who wrote 'The Tyger'. And the little black boy, who knows all about tigers,... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 1160 pages
...thee such a tender voice, Making all the vales rejoice! Songs of Innocence 1 1 789 1 'The Lamb' 18 My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the Knglish child: But 1 am black as if bereaved of light.... | |
 | Earl Shorris - Education - 2000 - 292 pages
...easily to them; more than anything they responded to this poem by William Blake. The Little Black Boy My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black,...an angel is the English child; But I am black as if bereaved of light. My mother taught me underneath a tree, And sitting down before the heat of day.... | |
 | Beverly Lyon Clark, Margaret R. Higonnet - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 318 pages
...such books is the mother in Blake's poem "Little Black Boy." The child says, ... I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if bereav'd of light. My mother taught me underneath a tree, ". . . these black bodies and this sunburnt face Is but a cloud,... | |
 | Kwesi Owusu - Art - 2000 - 580 pages
...mystic and savant, he is convinced that: My mothet bote me in the southetn wild. And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if beteav'd of light. is Yet, this is the man who wtote 'The Tyget'. And the little black boy, who knows... | |
 | Kathleen Lundeen - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 192 pages
...matter is a visible sign of spirit. The black boy's reading of skin tone is painfully overdetermined: "White as an angel is the English child: / But I am black as if bereav'd of light." As the poem demonstrates, reading matter as a sign is not a hermeneutic so much as it is a political... | |
 | Adam Lively - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 306 pages
...white. Blake expresses the same idea in 'The Little Black Boy', one of his Songs of Innocence (1789): My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white. Blake has his little black boy imagine meeting a 'little English boy' in heaven.... | |
 | Mary Prince - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 162 pages
...in Abolitionist literature of this period. See, for example: William Blake, The Little Black Boy': 'My mother bore me in the southern wild / And I am black, but O! my soul is white / White as an angel is the English child, / But I am black, as if bereav'd of light'... | |
 | Carmela Ciuraru - American poetry - 2001 - 276 pages
...to be heeded. There are exceptions, but the general preference remains intact. THE LITTLE BLACK BOY My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if bereav'd of light.... | |
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I am black, as if bereaved of light. My mother taught me underneath a tree, And, sitting down before the heat of day, She took me on her lap and kissed me, And, pointing to the East, began to say: 'Look on the rising sun: there God... 
