Answer:
The two poems that the question is talking about are:
<em>Innocence and Experience</em> by the author William Blake.
The correct answer is:
C) In the first poem, the child is pure; in the second he is corrupt.
Explanation:
The author William Blake uses the collection of his two poems, <em>Innocence and Experience </em>in order to explain the different stages of the soul in terms of purity and corruption for the human beings.
In the first poem <em>Innocence</em>, the author talks about a pure child who is in the first stages of life only knowing about goodness, chastity, purity, love and sweetness.
- "Sweet babe, in thy face
Holy image I can trace;Sweet babe, once like thee
Thy Maker lay, and wept for me:" -
Later on, in the second poem <em>Experience </em>the author mentions about the way in which human beings learn about corruption as life passes. Across this text, it is possible to see reflected different feeling and attitudes that people adopt, it is condition that leads humans to be immoral in some way, this is to be considered the contrary of innocence.
- "Sweet babe, in thy face
Soft desires I can trace,
Secret joys and secret smiles,
Little pretty infant wiles." -
5, the answer will be rounded up by adding a number to 4 (Ten thousand value). Which is 50,000