The Little Girl Lost is a 1794 poem published by William Blake in his Songs of Innocence and of Experience collection. According to a scholar, Grevel Lindop, this poem illustrates Blake's pattern of the transition between "spontaneous, imaginative childhood" pretensions to "a complex and mature (but also more dangerous) state of adult experience."
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Summary and Structure
According to Lindop, the poem begins with a prophecy of Blake during the first two stanzas. This prophecy tells the reader that "our imperfect world will one day be redeemed and renewed by the God who created it." This is not a warning about "second coming" or "judgment day," but only Blake believes that those on earth should seek God. According to scholar Thomas Connolly, Earth will "wake up to see its maker" and this will bring "Eden regeneration." After the prophecy, the poetry narrative begins. Lyca, the "little girl" in the poem wanders into the wilderness. Her parents are very sad about their lost daughter. As pointed out in Lindop's summary, "the knowledge of his parents' sadness disturbed him, but he had no anxiety in his own name and the animals his parents feared were treating him gently and taking him to their cave while he slept." The poem ends up following the animal that brought Lyca to the cave.
The narrative in this poem continues in "The Little Girl Found."
"The Little Girl Lost" is a thirteen-bait poem, has 52 lines, and follows the AABB rhyme scheme.
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Poems
In the future I am prophetic to see
That earth from sleeping
(Bury deep sentences)
Will appear and search for
For its gentle maker,
And wild desert
Be a light garden.
In the south area,
Where prime prime summer Never fade away,
Lovely Lyca lying down.
Seven summers Lovely Lyca notices;
He has long wandered Hear the wild bird song.
'Sweet sleep, come to me Under this tree Is your father, mother, crying?
Where's Lyca sleeping?
'Get lost in the wild wilderness
Is your little boy.
How can Lyca sleep? If her mother was crying?
'If his heart hurts, huh? Then let Lyca wake up; If my mother sleeps,
Lyca will not cry.
Frowning, frowning at night,
O'er desert this bright,
Let your moon appear While I close my eyes. '
Lyca sleep lying down
As for beasts of predators,
Coming from inside the cave,
Have seen servants sleeping.
The lion king stood up,
And the view of the virgin,
Then he'll get around O'er holy ground.
Leopards, tigers, playing
Round him as he lay,
As for the old lion
Bowing the mane of gold
And his chest licking,
And on his neck
From his eyes fire
Ruby's tears come,
The lioness of the
Loos'd her slim dress,
And naked they deliver
To steal a sleeping maid
Plate
The plate for "The Little Girl Lost" features a couple embracing in a kiss with her arm reaching up. There is also a natural presence with flying birds and twigs hanging over the couple. A vine with a snake splits the first two stanzas of the rest of the poem. According to the scholars, Rodney Baine and Mary Baine, the hugging lovers featured on the poetry plate helped to "show that Lyca's journey into sexuality is maturity, experience.
Themes and Analysis
Throughout Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience and as stated in the title, there is a constant theme moving from an innocent stage to the stage of experience in his poetry. According to Connolly, this transition is a sexual transition. "The girl, Lyca, without guidance or patronage, managed to experience sexual maturation, despite her parents' fears, and then served as a model to get rid of them from their own sexual mistakes, and to introduce them to an innocent state they had never experienced before. "An important part of this interpretation is the question of how old Lyca really is. Connolly shows lines 13-14 referring to Lyca's age, "Seven summer old/Lovely Lyca says." Connolly caught our attention that although it could mean that Lyca was seven years old, it could also mean seven summers have passed since she stepped on puberty. If that happens then Lyca will be at the same age as the woman depicted on the plate.
References
Jobs Cited
- Baine, Rodney M., and Mary R. Baine. "Blake Other Tigers, and" The Tyger "." Study in English Literature, 1500-1900 15.4, Nineteenth Century (1975): 563-78. Web.
- Connolly, Thomas E. "'Little Missing Girl' 'Little Girl Found': Blake Reversal of Innocence-Experience Pattern." College Literature 16.2 (1989): 148-66. Web.
- Lindop, Grevel. "Blake: 'Little Missing Girl' and 'Little Girl was found'." Critical Survey 6.1/2 (1973): 36-40. Web.
External links
Text on Wikisource:
- "Little Missing Girl" ( Experience Song )
- Interpretation on the University of Georgia Department's English website
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