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Poetry and close reading · Secondary / sixth form

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

William Blake

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Paired titles and contrasting speakers offer a way to compare how innocence and experience frame familiar situations. Begin with one pair of poems, attend to who is speaking, and examine how repetition or an apparently simple rhythm can complicate the account of childhood, authority and care.

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