Song: Never Seek to Tell Thy Love By William Blake - Kelompok 6

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Song: Never Seek to Tell Thy Love

By William Blake

            “Never Seek to tell thy love” is a poem by William Blake. William Blake was a 19th century writer and artist who is regarded as a seminal figure of the Romantic Age.He born in 1757 in London, England, William Blake began writing at an early age and claimed to have had his first vision, of a tree full of angels, at age 10. Now Blake was an established engraver, he began experimenting with printing techniques and it was not long before he compiled his first illuminated book, 'Songs of Innocence' in 1788. Blake wanted to take his poetry beyond being just words on a page and felt they needed to be illustrated to create his desired effect. Shortly after he completed 'The Book of Thel' and from 1790-3, 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell', which followed on from his significant Prophetic books. These books were a collection of writings on his philosophical ideas and although they have nothing to do with his poetry, it was a sign of his increasing awareness of the social injustices of his time, which led to the completion of his 'Songs of Experience' in 1794. This poem is renewed by the poet, the title of new one is Love's Secret but the contain is same.  (http://www.biography.com/people/william-blake-9214491).

            This poem tell about the writer’s experience that he falling in love to a woman but he is never tell and hiding his feeling. He has strong feeling to her and he believe and confident that his love will acceptance. Then he try to tell her feeling to woman who he love but in fact, she have a sweetheart. Exactly she leave him alone so he feel sad and regret. In addition, love is a feeling that haven by other people between man and woman. If you falling in love, love can be make happy, freak and so on. But if you hide away your feeling and lost her or his love, love can be pain. Therefore, love should be allow to flow and happen naturally. So you can feel what love and know what is true love?

Never seek to tell thy love

Love that never told can be

For the gentle wind does move

  Silently, invisible

In the first stanza. It describe about the writer falling in love to woman, but he never told his love. He only hide his feeling. However, he has a strong feeling to her but he not expressed his felling like wind that blowing fast and sometimes the wind is quite and invisible. it is show how his felling that moment.

 

I told my love, I told my love

I told her all my heart

Trembling, cold, inghastly fears ….

Ah, she doth depart

In the fifth and sixth distich, there is the word that repeat again and again is “Told”. “Told” in here tell about he will be expressed his strong felling to her. He is very confident and believe that his love will be response. Then in the seven distich, he is very nervous until all of his body like numb because of he will be expressed his feeling to her.

Soon as she was gone from me

A traveler came by

Silently, invisible ….

O, was no deny …..

In the last stanza, it told that her love is gone and leave him before he tell about his feeling to her but it’s to late. Then her sweetheart is come in the place for pick up her. the writer’s feeling is very sad and so regret. Whereas, he’s believe that his love will be respond. 

On other hand, we can look from social issue in the poem. Looking from ninth and tenth distich “Soon as she was gone from me”, “A traveler came by”. Those are told about the woman who he love leave him and choose gone with her sweetheart than she must listen the writer’s felling. Suddenly her sweetheart came. It make the writer’s felling is very sad, angry and regret to her. So their relationship is end,it is a social issue in this poem.

So the main of that poem is the writer’s experience that told about love and his regret, he has a big love, but he never told to everyone, he just hiding his feeling. When the writer want to expressed his feeling, it is to late due to the woman who he love gone with another man, so the writer feel regret “why the writer not expressed his feeling immediately?”. Therefore, if you love someone you must told immediately before he/she leave us with another people. So love should be allow to flow and happen naturally.