Earth's Answer

Songs of Innocence and of Experience hand painted copy Z printed in 1826 and currently held by the Library of Congress.[1]

Earth's Answer is a poem by William Blake within his larger collection called Songs of Innocence and of Experience (published 1794).[2] It is the response to the previous poem in The Songs of Experience-- Introduction (Blake, 1794). In the Introduction, the bard asks the Earth to wake up and claim ownership. In this poem, the feminine Earth responds.

"Earth's Answer" is composed of five stanzas, each having five lines. With the exceptions of the third and fourth, the stanzas follow an ABAAB rhyme scheme.

  1. ^ Morris Eaves; Robert N. Essick; Joseph Viscomi (eds.). "Songs of Innocence and of Experience, object 31 (Bentley 31, Erdman 31, Keynes 31) "EARTH'S Answer"". William Blake Archive. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
  2. ^ Gleckner, Robert (September 1961). "William Blake and the Human Abstract". Modern Language Association. 76 (4): 373–379. doi:10.2307/460620. JSTOR 460620.