On Another’s Sorrow. Essay -- English Literature

On Anothers Sorrow.There is a strong phantasmal theme running throughout this poem. Blackuses the idea of mournfulness to show, and how we quid with it to show thedifference between humans and God. He does this by change integrity the poeminto two halves and looking at how a soul and wherefore God would dealwith wo. Blake asks several questions, as it is in first person atthis point I feel that it is Blake asking the questions, which are,Can I hit anothers woe,And not be in sorrow too?Can I see anothers grief,And not judge for kind relief?This is an example of Blakes use for the rhetorical question, whichstirs thoughts of how we cope with sorrow, which is shown when heasks, if I can not feel sorrow when I see another feeling sorrow?, andwhen I see another feeling grief can I not go and find relief from it?He answers this with no it can never be. This because leads the readerto ask themselves where he will find this relief.Blake then in the second half of the poem shows that God is the onewho you can seek relief in and who is there to help in t...