A Stylistic Analysis of William Blake's Poem 'Holy Thursday I'

Essay from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, Thi-Qar University (College of Education for Humanities), course: M.A. Course, language: English, abstract: Holy Thursday I is one of the poems that Blake wrote in his book called Songs of Innocence in 1789. The poem describes a ceremony called Ascension Day in England and the presence of children in a cathedral to celebrate and do their singing activities. So, this term paper aims to analyze stylistically Blake's poem 'Holy Thursday' in terms of phonetic, phonological, graphological, grammatical, lexical levels and figures of speech.

Ahmed M. Hashim is an English language trainer, holding an M.A. in Psycholinguistics, and Applied Linguistics from Dhi Qar University, and a Dip in Social Media and IT from VCU in Virginia, USA. He has been teaching English for more than 6 years in different oil companies like Gazprom, British Petroleum, and TOC. He is currently teaching at the National University for Science and Technology and at Language Solutions International