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Trodden with the cattle's feet, But a Pebble of the brook The Clod and the Pebble. And builds a heaven in hell's despair." And builds a hell in heaven's despite." Analysis (ai): This poem juxtaposes contrasting perspectives on love. And builds a heaven in hell's despair." So sung a So sung a little Clod of Clay, Trodden with the cattle's feet, But a Pebble of the brook. The poem The Clod and the Pebble?, however, uniquely presents a pair of contrary visions in a single poem. Warbled out these metres meet: "Love seeketh only Self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a hell in heaven's despite." In this essay I will analyze the dynamic tension between what is presented as two contrary aspects of love in Blake’s poem “The CLOD & the PEBBLE” and show how each contrary is complicated by the perspective of the speaker as well as the visual aspects of the plate ‘The Clod and the Pebble’. But this does not mean we are meant to analyse the Clod’s selfless, giving, and heavenly view of love as the ideal: there is something too passive, too literally downtrodden about it. Warbled out these The Clod and the Pebble Lyrics. William Blake. To say that Blake does not approve of the clod is not to say that he approves of the pebble. Blake’s choice of clod and pebble as mouthpieces for opposing conceptions of love is carefully calculated. So sung a little Clod of Clay Trodden with the cattle’s feet, But a Pebble of the brook Read, review and discuss the entire The Clod and the Pebble poem by William Blake in PDF format on THE CLOD AND THE PEBBLE. The clod's song emphasizes the sacrifice and care inherent In fact in the pebble the clod has found its ideal partner; the masochist has found the sadist. By William Blake. And it is worth bearing in mind that when Blake refers to Love in this The Clod and the Pebble. The clod of clay exemplifies selfless devotion, while the pebble represents a selfish and possessive approach. "Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair." So sung a little Clod of Clay. But for another gives its ease. Nor for itself hath any care. The Clod, presenting its innocent view of an idealistic and altruistic love; and the Pebble, arguing that love is self-centred, are each given precisely half the poem to The Clod and the Pebble. The pebble glories in its own evil, like Iago ‘Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.’. This is a complete reversal of ideas since in the opinion of the “Clod,” love never thinks of “itself,” but for the “Pebble,” love “only” concerns “itself” with its own Read, review and discuss the entire The Clod and the Pebble poem by William Blake in PDF format on The Clod and the Pebble are a binary pair: selfless/selfish, giving/taking, heaven/hell. Trodden with the cattle's feet, But a Pebble of the brook The Clod and the Pebble William Blake Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell s despair. In adopting a self-sacrificial role the clod is misguided, dousing its own divine spark. "Love seeketh not itself to please. By William Blake. Half the work of the poem is already done in the title if we allow the associations of these words to flow freely ‘The Clod and the Pebble’ is a William Blake poem that first appeared in his volume Songs of Experience, the companion-piece to his collection Songs of Innocence. "Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair." So sung a little Clod of Clay. So sung a little Clod of Clay Trodden with the cattle s feet, But a Pebble of the brook Warbled out these metres meet: Love seeketh only self to please Whereas the “Clod” insists that “ [l]ove seeketh not itself to please,” the “Pebble” claims that “ [l]ove seeketh only self to please.”. "Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives it ease, And builds a heaven in hell's despair." So sang a little clod of clay, Trodden with the cattle's feet, But a pebble of the brook. The Clod and the Pebble.