W Blake | A Robin Redbreast in a Cage | An Analytical Study
W. Blake’s Poem ‘A Robin Redbreast in a Cage’-An Analytical Study
W Blake | A Robin Redbreast in a Cage | An Analytical Study
‘A Robin Redbreast in a Cage’ is a piece of lyrical poetry in English written by William Blake (1757-1827). Through this poem, the poet shows his kind or sympathetic feelings toward birds and animals. It is written in a simple and lucid style.
The poet has depicted the cruelty of human beings perpetrated on animals and birds and then he says about what happens to people when they perpetrate cruelty to animals and birds. The poet says that when a robin redbreast (a kind of bird) is put in a cage then the angels of Heaven are enraged with the human being. Secondly, the poet says that a dog while it starves at his master’s gate, it predicts that the state must ruin. In other words, to say, the human race must suffer from famine. A game-cock, while clipped off its feathers and armed for fight, then the rising sun affrights of it. The poet says about a horse while it is misused on the road. He anticipates that it there will be bloodshed in human society. While a hunter hunts a hare then the hare’s outcry tears the fibre of the poet. When a man makes a wound to the wings of a skylark it makes the angle of heaven cease to sing. The man will not be loved by anyone if he hurt the little wren.
At last, the poet suggests his readers to feed the beggar’s dog and window’s cat and if the human being does so to them it will be done immense good to the human being in turn.
The poem is mystic as the poet wishes to mean that the wild animals and birds are the expression of the divine spirit and that is why God and angels get enraged if they are mistreated and consequently human beings happen to suffer in life. This poem teaches us the lesson that human beings should be sympathetic towards wild animals and birds as every action of ours has a reaction.
This poem is written in a simple style. It is free from difficult figures of speech. 0 0 0
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W Blake | A Robin Redbreast in a Cage | An Analytical Study
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