There is a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a flower. Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an instant.
These are the first four sentences of william blake's long poem "The Omen of Innocence". The original text is as follows:
To see a world in a grain of sand,
A world in a grain of sand.
There is a heaven in a wild flower.
Heaven in a flower.
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.
Eternity will melt in an hour.
Eternity is collected in an instant.
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Black maintained a radical tendency in religion, politics and art all his life. His strong religious consciousness, artist's talent and rich life experience provide an inexhaustible creative source for his poems, which makes his poems have obvious religious, prophetic, philosophical and artistic features.
His contribution to English poetry, especially romantic poetry, is obvious to all. His early poems mainly include Poems, Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.
The language of early poetry is simple and easy to understand, mainly short poems, with short syllables, and the theme content is mainly what you see and hear in life; However, the length of later poems increased obviously, sometimes reaching hundreds or even thousands of lines, and the content was obviously obscure, with mystery, religion and symbol as the main characteristics.