 | Sara Jeannette Duncan - 1996 - 352 pages
...not more natures like yours among our rulers? Then would all bad feeling between the races disappear. "My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O, my soul is white!" And you, sir, will well remember that "We are put on earth a little space That... | |
 | Andrew H. Miller - 1996 - 258 pages
...the issue on English soil in 1789 with the literally soul-blenching start of "The Little Black Boy": "My mother bore me in the southern wild, / And I am black, but O! my soul is white" (11. 1-2). Half a century later, and after much liberal legislation, Barrett Browning's... | |
 | William Blake - 1996 - 180 pages
...boy offer to the reader's complacency? Haw does the meaning of the word 'heat' change in the poem? My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O, my soul is white! White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if bereaved of light.... | |
 | Susan Gubar - 2000 - 356 pages
...slavery. Consider, for example, the beginning of Blake's famous poem "The Little Black Boy" (1789): My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereav'd of light.... | |
 | Kenneth Little - 1998 - 326 pages
...Blake wrote in his Songs of Innoceace— My mother bore me in a southern w1ld, And I am black, but O my soul is white, White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as though bereaved of light. propensities of the black man play a prominent part. 1 It is difficult, however,... | |
 | Don Herzog - 2000 - 580 pages
...Perhaps the least innocent of his Songs of Innocence is 'The Little Black Boy," a childlike recital. My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white. White as an angel is the English child: But I am black as if bereav'd of light.... | |
 | Nicholas M. Williams - 1998 - 280 pages
...reproductive transfer. Several readers have noted, for instance, the pressures at work in the first stanza My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child: But I am black as if bereav'd of light... | |
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639 pages
...mystic and savant, he is convinced that: My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if bereav'd of light. 15 Yet, this is the man who wrote 'The Tyger'. And the little black boy, who knows... | |
 | Beverly Lyon Clark, Margaret R. Higonnet - 2000 - 318 pages
...such books is the mother in Blake's poem "Little Black Boy." The child says, ... I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if bereav'd of light. My mother taught me underneath a tree, ". . . these black bodies and this sunburnt... | |
 | Kathleen Lundeen - 2000 - 192 pages
...matter is a visible sign of spirit. The black boy's reading of skin tone is painfully overdetermined: "White as an angel is the English child: / But I am black as if bereav'd of light." As the poem demonstrates, reading matter as a sign is not a hermeneutic so much... | |
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My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white. White as an angel is the English child: But I am black as if bereav'd of light. My mother taught me underneath a tree And sitting down before the heat of day, She took me... 
