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But sibling-rivalry is not an independent concept - the brother, like the father, is a rival for the mother's favour. Blake's choice of the name 'Suction' for his brother and his presentation of Suction's freedom in expressing feelings suggest an older child's jealous view of a younger one's privileges. And, although Blake undoubtedly loved his younger brother, there must have been times in his childhood when he was intensely jealous. 11 'An Island in the Moon': Images of Dirt and Purity 17 His work suggests that he felt particularly angry at seeing the newcomer sucking from his mother's breast.
But anger is nevertheless implied by Blake's use of syntax and images which evoke ideas of rage elsewhere in his work. Thousands of little girls & Boys raising their innocent hands Then like a mighty wind they raise to heavn the voice of song. , in the church] but multitudes of lambs' (IM 11, E 453) suggests that elsewhere multitudes are not singing meekly. In Blake's poem about the French Revolution, they were revolutionary crowds, and later, in Va la, in an apocalyptic moment, a group of deprived children express their rage fully.
23 The 'mighty wind' of the children's voices has become the 'furious wind' rending oppressors. Blake's capacity and predilection later to transform the early images is adumbrated by the initial ambiguous comparison of the children's peaceful song to a strong wind and mighty thunder. Moreover, these images not only suggest the power of rage under the cloak of innocence but also recall Blake's earlier aggressive excretory images, most particularly Gass's bog-wind. The nature of this transformation becomes clearer when the images are contrasted with those in Blake's sketch of Envy.