Criticism of Organized Religion in Little Boy Lost and Little Boy Found

Criticism of Organized Religion in Little Boy disordered and Little Boy Found   Organized religion and its adversity to the natural public is a capic that William Blake addresses quite frequently in his writings. In Little Boy Lost, from Songs of Innocence, Blake presents a young child, representing the fledgling mind, getting lost in the dark forest of the material world. The illustration at the top of the page shows the micro male child being led by a light or spirit of some kind, the vapour that Blake later speaks of. The boy cries out to his father, not his biological father, but the priest that has been guiding him on his education of the world thus far. The priest is moving too debauched for the boy and leaves him behind to wander through the thick mire of the world of adult male alone.   In the next plate, Little Boy Found, Blake reconciles the negative figure of the priest and religion that was presented in the previous work. It begins by recounting the floor of the boy who got lost by following the wandering light of the priests interlingual rendition of religion. matinee idol hears the boys cries and comes to his rescue like his father in white. This could be referring to matinee idol appearing as human, or Jesus, or in the image of his father, the priest. God leads the child back to his mother, the mother earth, depicted at the right of the stanza, by chance with wings. The mother earth had been seeking her natural child who had been led wide by the misconceptions of man-made religion. The illustration at the top of the plate shows the little boy and a female figure, presumably the mother earth, both with halos, travel through the forest hand in hand. This hints at the divination of man in his good natural context. Blake is making a statemen... ...nity of all subsisting things, including himself. The harsh reaction of unionized religion to this idea is illustrated in the min Little Boy Lost, in which the youth is actual ly burned for his ill-affected thinking. The first set of poetrys tells of the boys lack of success in a apparitional system in that did not seem to really care nigh the boy, and left him floundering. It then describes his introduction to God in the forest, who brought him back to his mother, the earth, which showed him proper reverence of God through nature, not priestly education. The second poem captures organized religions harsh reaction to this unorthodox and rebellious thinking, and destroys the boy for laborious to reach outside of the accepted normal teachings. Together, the poems show an evolution from Blakes dissatisfaction with organized religion to an outright indictment of its practices.