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  2. Song for Someone - Wikipedia

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    The song was performed in every show during the Innocence + Experience Tour. During performances, the video screens displayed a recreation of Bono's childhood home, with his son portraying a childhood version of him trying to write a song. [5] The song was also played on opening night of the Experience + Innocence Tour in Tulsa, in 2018. [6]

  3. The Little Girl Lost - Wikipedia

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    The Little Girl Lost is a 1794 poem published by William Blake in his collection Songs of Innocence and of Experience. According to scholar, Grevel Lindop, this poem represents Blake's pattern of the transition between "the spontaneous, imaginative Innocence of childhood" to the "complex and mature (but also more dangerous) adult state of ...

  4. The Clod and the Pebble - Wikipedia

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    The clod in this poem represents innocence. Its view of love is, according to Joseph Heffner, full of "childlike innocence." The choice of a clod of clay to represent this innocent view of love is significant because it is soft, and this view point is easily squished by life, or in this poem the foot of a cow. [2]

  5. A Little Boy Lost - Wikipedia

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    The little boy is peremptorily castigated as a heretic and summarily burned at the stake, even though the child's age—he is a little boy, after all; he sees the world through the eyes of a child's innocence—would seemingly preclude him from comprehending the awful construing of his words (by the Priest) as heresy.

  6. Night (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Blake's aim for his Songs was to depict the two contrary states of human existence: innocence and experience. The Songs speak upon the "innocence" of being a child and the "experience" gained over a lifetime. The Songs are separated into ten different objects, with each object offering a different situation and how it is viewed from a child's ...

  7. The Voice of the Ancient Bard - Wikipedia

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    Initially it was a part of the Songs of Innocence and printed as verso to The Little Black Boy; however, in the latest issues it is commonly placed last, forming a connecting link with the Introduction to the Songs of Experience. [3] After 1818, it was moved into Songs of Experience and became a terminal poem of all the collection of the Songs.

  8. Holy Thursday (Songs of Innocence) - Wikipedia

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    The children in their colourful dresses are compared to flowers and their procession toward the church as a river. Their singing on the day that commemorated the Ascension of Jesus is depicted as raising them above their old, lifeless guardians, who remain at a lower level. [2] [8] [9]

  9. The Little Vagabond - Wikipedia

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    The Little Vagabond is a 1794 poem by English poet William Blake in his collection Songs of Innocence and of Experience. His collection, Songs of Innocence, was originally published alone, in 1789. The scholar Robert Gleckner says that the poem is a form of transformation of the boy in the poem "The School Boy", from Songs of Innocence. [2]