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thumbnail The Little Girl Lost is a 1794 poem published by William Blake in his collection ''Songs of Innocence and of Experience''. According to scholar, Grevel Lindop, this poem represents Blake's pattern of the transition between "the spontaneous, imaginative Innocence of childhood" to the "complex and mature (but also more dangerous) adult state of Experience."〔 == Summary and Structure == According to Lindop, the poem starts out with a prophecy from Blake during the first two stanzas. This prophecy is telling readers that "our imperfect world will one day be redeemed and renewed by the God who created it." 〔 This is not a warning of a "second-coming" or "judgement day," but just Blake believing that those on earth must seek out God. According to scholar, Thomas Connolly, the Earth will "awake to see her maker" and this will bring out an "Edenic regeneration."〔 Following the prophecy, the poem's narrative begins. Lyca, the "little girl" in the poem wanders out into the wilderness. Her parents are very distressed about their lost daughter. As pointed out in Lindop's summary, "the knowledge of her parents' grief disturbs her, but she has no anxiety on her own behalf and the very beasts her parents fear treat her gently and carry her to their caves as she sleeps." The poem ends following the animals taking Lyca off to the caves. The narrative in this poem continues in "The Little Girl Found." "The Little Girl Lost" is a thirteen-stanza poem, has 52 lines, and follows an AABB rhyme scheme. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Little Girl Lost」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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