poem for the day
Posted by harafish | Filed under words from the pages of my mind
To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
from William Blake's "Auguries of Innocence"
Blake wrote this poem in 1803, but it was only in 1863 that this poem was published.
The "Auguries of Innocence" like many of Blake's poem is full of paradoxes.
In this poem, Blake juxtaposed innocence with social evils.
The best thing I like about Blake is his subtlety.
The poem talks about the rotting of morality without sounding like a trite moralizing.
