The Little Black Boy Rhetorical Analysis

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“The Little Black Boy”: The Religious Commentary
William Blake’s “The Little Black Boy” not only has a deep meaning it also focus on issues such as race and religion. William Blake offers religious redemption by encouraging the fairness of all people despite race, ethnicity, gender, and the list goes on. He wants the audience to know that it doesn't depend on the physical being but on the moral acts in the sight of the All Knowing, All Powerful, Almighty God. Blake uses the power of biblical imagery and symbolism to get his message across to his audience.
In “The Little Black Boy,” the speaker is a child, he declares “for when our souls have learned the heat to bear/ the cloud will vanish; we shall hear his voice,” indicating there is reassurance …show more content…

Skin color, like the cloud, becomes insignificant to man whenever the Lord calls him/her. Whenever they have learned to tolerate the discrimination and injustice in a sensible manner their souls will be freed. He calls out “Come out from the grove, my love and care/and round my golden tent like lambs rejoice (19-20). This is a lesson that teaches everyone that the only light (color skin) that matters is the light of God (Hidalgo 130). The golden tent mentioned represents the Golden Gate of Heaven. It also represents when God's presence and how the people will rejoice when they see his …show more content…

The little black boy says, “I’ll shade him from the heat till he can bear/ to lean in joy upon our father’s knee,” (Blake 25-26). He is saying that he will wait until the little white boy accepts the message and then will they both be waiting for God to show his grace.
William Blake delivered his views of religion in this poem to criticize the slave-trade. Blake believed that all humans were equal because all humans were made in God’s image. When he said “…. There God does live and gives his light, and gives his heat away” (Blake 9-10), he was expressing the idea that the whole world is equal because God made them all and placed them in one place to interact with each

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