The ‘ Spring’ has a number of allusions that echoes a number of Blake’s other poems. These images have consolidates the images one finds in the poems of the collection: ‘ Introduction,’ ‘ Little Boy Lost,’ ‘ Little Boy Found,’ ‘ The Lamb,’ and several other poems. In ‘spring’ the poet has used the images of “the flute”, “Day and Night”, “the little boy”, and “the Lamb”. Imagery gives a visual impact to help the readers understand the poet’s purpose. The dominant one is his use of imagery that connects the poem with the other poems in the collection. ‘Spring’ is a simple poem, yet, the poet has incorporated a number of literary/ poetic devices. The number of images used by the poet helps to understand the setting better. It further explores the harmony of man with the natural world.Īs the title of the poem suggests, the setting is the spring season itself. In ‘ Spring’ Blake celebrates innocence as he welcomes the arrival of Spring. It reads like a child’s celebration of spring and new life. The poem continues the pastoral theme, looking at harmony between nature and human beings. The prominent themes in the poem are childhood, innocence, and nature. The theme of a poem helps to understand the intention of the author in writing the poem. The rhyme scheme AABBCCDDE is uniformly followed by all the stanzas. The simple rhyme scheme and language of ‘ Spring’ support this aspect of the poem which makes it more appealing. The last line is repeated in the stanzas to exemplify the joy the author has for this time of year. In the third stanza, he talks about the epitome of innocence – the lamb and desires to celebrate the spring with all the innocents. The speaker talks about the little innocent boy and girl and their innocent voices, in the second stanza. In the first stanza, the child welcomes the spring by breaking the silence. The twenty-seven lines in the poems are divided into three stanzas with nine lines in each. The speaker of the poem is a child, like many of the poems in “ Songs of Innocence.” Since the speaker in the poem is a child, he/she describes the beauty of spring without thinking about the hard winter, neither of the past nor in the future. Since the poem speaks of all the things positive and innocent, it is evident that the speaker is not aware of the underlying horror of changing seasons. Finally, the image of the ‘crow’, and the ‘kiss’ of the lamp, seal the child with nature. The poem commemorates the coming of spring as a source of joy in which nature leaps into a new life, as the New Year begins. The human world and the rest of nature are in harmony with ‘the sound of the flute,’ ‘the song of the nightingale,’ ‘the little girl,’ and ‘the little cockerel.’ All of these have been already talked about in other poems and he brings them here to celebrate innocence. In ‘ Spring’, the poet gives reference to everything in communion with the season: the nightingale, little boy, the little girl, cock, and a stanza about the innocent lamb. ‘ Spring‘ is a short lyric poem, that explores the theme of innocence, through vivid images, closely associated with the season.
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