A good poetry analysis of William Blake's poem "The Little Black Boy"

William Blake's The Little Black Boy revolves around the theme of slavery and the ideal slave's mentality. Blake wrote about a black African-American and his experience with slavery. Blake probably expressed his own feelings towards the whites' racism and suppression acts towards African-Americans through the black boy, which is the speaker of the poem. The poem is about an African-American, who is the speaker of the poem, who remembers his childhood with his mother where …

…can bear that light and enjoy God's prize. Then, the black boy says, his master will love him and the conflict between blacks and whites will be erased. Blake was very successful in showing the reader the points of view of African-Americans during their slavery period. He used many literary forms to emphasize his ideas such as metaphors and allusion. He was able to make the reader sense the situations and conflicts African-Americans were facing.