In the Introduction to the Songs of Innocence, there is great stress placed on the author's ability to play music. It is, of course, a way for the author to insert himself into his work the way Homer and Virgil did, but there is something about the line "Piper pipe that song
again— / So I piped, he wept to hear." that speaks greatly to myself as a musician. The ability to make people show any type of emotion, whether it be joyous or sad, is something that provides people like me with great satisfaction, as I would imagine it also does for Blake.
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I loved that, too! It makes me think of how when we do our praise and worship set, and I look into the crowd and see how it is moving people. Music is a beautiful thing!
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed the introduction as well. I thought is was awesome that he got so much joy out of the song. Music really is emotionally beautiful.
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