LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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We are only on earth to learn through suffering.
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When Jesus returns, the last will be first.
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We should accept the other cultures around us.
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People should stay with people who are most like them.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The black boy passes on this lesson to an English child, explaining that his white skin is likewise a cloud. He vows that when they are both free of their bodies and delighting in the presence of God, he will shade his white friend until he, too, learns to bear the heat of God’s love.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the last four lines of the poem, the narrator is the little black boy himself. He feels that although his body is black and considered by many to be inferior, his soul, and his spiritual self is as fine as a white child’s. So it would appear he has taken his mother’s teachings to heart.
Detailed explanation-3: -The little black boy’s mother then tells him that, after death, the ‘cloud’ masking God (the sun) from our vision will be cleared away, and like frolicking lambs these children will be in Heaven, around God.
Detailed explanation-4: -The poem “the little black boy” revolves around slavery and the ideal slavery mindset. Blake wrote about a black African-American child and his struggles with slavery which draws on Blake’s owns views about white supremacy and white suppression against the blacks through a black boy who is the speaker of the poem.