domingo, 16 de agosto de 2009

Blake and the Bible...



After reading “the little black boy” by William Blake it is pretty obvious the existing connection between Blake’s words and some passages of the bible. This is exemplified in the very third line of the poem, where the word “angel” is quoted. Much is the closer relation between angels and the bible; in fact, these beings were the ones that appear many times in some passages of it.

Another connection within the Blake’s poem and the Bible is the verse where God is named as the one who will have the two boys, the black and the white, sit in His knees when everything else has passed, when the end of the days has come, at last. Here, Blake calls directly to the belief that, even though on the earth there are differences among people, in the Kingdom there will not be any difference among people, everybody will be the same in front of God.