The Nurse's Song Poem Summary and analysis

Introduction

The ''Nurse's Song'' in the song of Innocence is quite simple in which is the poet renders a conversational narration of the talk between the nurse and the playing. The sheep and birds are, as usual, the stock participants in the enjoyment. As a Guardian Angel, the nurse prevails over the landscape observing the playing kids. The ''Nurse's Song'' in songs of Experience is a contrast to the nurse of ''Nurse's Song'' in songs of Innocence. 

This small poem furnishes thought or feeling of experience nurse and no conversation takes place between the children and the nurse. The diction of the poem itself suggests the pervading gravity and the discoloured background. The children of the poem could hear screams during the game when they played on the green hills. The children are playing and it is their shouts that are suggested here. As it is likely to be night very soon the nurse calls back the children to take them home. But the children did not want to come home. They argue that the sun still does not return.

What is the time to sleep now?

She says that they can resume their sport the next day in the morning. She permits them to play until it is night and then they are to go to sleep. Having been allowed the liberty and freedom to play they shout with redoubled energy. As long as the nurse speaks out, they give consent to the words and the nurse gives them the opportunity to enjoy the result of growth. Poetry in the poem, William Blake has brought an opposite picture of his earlier sings of innocence's nurse's song-poem. In the valley, listening to the voices of the children of nurses seems to have heard of a conspiracy. And reminds her of the green god Irisin's green jealousy of hearing.

The nurse remembers her childhood and is sorry. Which will never return. But these children are now flowing in. As a result, he forced them to return home. The nurse feels that she has lost her childhood and forced the children to return home. He is afraid of children that their precious time is being wasted in sports and due to the evening the cold air has come down which is very harmful. Now it seems that the winter and night chi, which indicates that the nurse has completely lost her youth and now there is no other way to go back. Blake seems to want to show up at this old age of youth life.

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Comparison between the two Nurses

The “Nurse’s Song” in the Song of Innocence is conversational whereas the “Nourse Song” in the Song of Experience is an aside. In Song of Innocence, the nurse keeps herself in close terms with nature and children and she feels happy and relaxed in her heart. There the nurse allows the children to play more when they protest against her command to go and sleep. In the Songs of Innocence, the nurse derives pleasure and tranquillity from the scene of the playing innocent children. But the nurse in Songs of Experience is preoccupied with herself, and her feeling and what she does are simply conveyed in a monologue.