Tenderness, Turmoil, Tyranny

Abstract

William Blake was both a political and a radical psychologist. He explores child psychology through his poem. He deals with so many social realities with a strong voice in his collections. Through a comprehensive analysis of Blake’s selected poems, the paper will focus on human affliction, child anguish, social disorders etc. The poet’s tenderness toward poor young children’s evident in his selected poems. Blake narrates sociology-psychological issues in his writings that encompass Tenderness, Tyranny and Turmoil in human life and their correlation with today’s social context. The re-evaluation of Blake’s selected poems will help to integrate the theme of Tenderness, Tyranny and Turmoil in his poetry. Furthermore, it will examine the pathetic living of young children for earning who are forced to do that by their parents as well as superiors and identity crisis of the children due to racial discrimination. This research will investigate the fact that how societal influences continuously shapes human behaviour and perceptions by interpreting Blake’s most famous poems on child and adult. Additionally, It will briefly describe Blake’s psychological views on human minds and social orders from the perspective of our society. Keywords – psychology, Innocence, Experience, Turmoil, Oppression, constraint, Tenderness. Impose.