All Religions Are One And There Is No Natural Religion

William Blake not only wrote poems but he made illuminated works of his poems as well. In the case of “All Religions are One”, the illuminated work is the poem. He painted the poems. He began with 2 pictures one of what appears to be a man, with the words below him, “The Voice of one crying in the Wilderness.” The man is just simply sitting and pointing to his left. His second illumined work for “All Religions are One”, there is a man holding a book sitting beside stone that seems to appear to be the shape of the Ten Commandments. There is an angle standing over his shoulder. The angle has a face of not peace but of sternness. The third illuminated work is the Argument. The Argument states, “As the true method of knowledge is

We can see transcendentalism with William Blake and his poetry. William Blake, who is a pre-romantic poet, handles his themes sincerely with a mind that is not distracted by the existing opinions such as rationalism, suppression and reason of opinions in his society. Although, he favors the morals of love, freedom, brotherhood and equality. Therefore, I believe he is considered one of the best romantic poets of all time. The majority of Blake’s poems show the romantic side of things such as simplicity, nature, transcendentalism, imagination, childhood and freedom. For instance, in his poem "the Lamb", simplicity, nature, and transcendentalism are strong romantic descriptions that we, as readers, can see them easily. Finally, the

Nature was a theme factoring in many of his works and Blake associates nature with different elements in these poems and we find that nature is seen in communion with God in the introductory poem and throughout these poems Blake points out the relationship and harmony between Man and Nature, children and Nature and he also talks about sex in Nature in `The Blossom'.

The romantic period in regards to the natural world had many accounts of divinity having an influence on the modern world. William Blake and his crazy yet visionary religious views implied the world followed the human form; all of its’ mercy, pity and peace being in constant play in shaping our world. Percy Bysshe Shelley and the view of the world as a shift from spring and winter, how our world follows the ups and downs as the seasons change, making life and taking it in balance and glorious harmony. William wordsworth has had the idea that children are the most divine and loving, for they have not yet been tainted and taught the evils of the world and once they had as men and women seen and experienced such evils, only nature could show them once again the love and compassion of the natural world. The romantic writers expressed deep theories and ideas that followed into other aspects of life, including later writers.

William Blake’s poetry is considered through the Romantics era and they access through the sublime. The Romantics poetry through the sublime is beyond comprehension and spiritual fullness. A major common theme is a nature (agnostic religion). In William Blake’s poem “The Tyger” he describes the tiger as a creature that was created by a higher power some time before. In Blake’s poem he questions, “What immortal hand or eye/ Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?” (Blake 22-23). He describes the tiger as a form of symmetry that can be seen as evil, yet have intriguing features such as those that make the tiger a beautiful creation. Blake also questions if that the higher being who created the tiger also created all else around the world such as a human being. Blake shifts his first stanzas from the tiger to the creator. Not only is he questioning who created the tiger, but he is also describing the beauty and evil of the world. The beauty that the Romantics believe in is nature and one evil seen through the world is materialism that distract humans from the beauty of nature 's gifts. He believes that people lose touch with spirituality when haven’t given to nature. Blake also illustrated his own works through

Theology is actually one of the many topics that frequently appears in a variety of work of English poet William Blake. A brief overview of some of the author's more noted works such as "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", "The Book of Thel", and Songs of Innocence and Experience readily attest to this fact. In Songs of Innocence and Experience, however, a number of the author's poems seem to integrate a decidedly Christian worldview within their text and the cosmology presented to readers through these works. This proclivity of Blake's is particularly salient in "The Chimney Sweeper" and "The Lamb". In fact, one can argue that most of the fundamental beliefs that Christianity is based upon are found within these poems, which serve as excellent examples of the author's tendency to write poems that adhere to a decidedly Christian viewpoint.

These visions made Blake believe in the belief of different powers despite his knowledge of religious ideas. As a child, his visions grew to diverse types of symbolic imageries, such as; elves, fairies, devils and angels (Long 329). These sights carried him through his childhood leaving grand impressions that inspired him to write poems and songs of Heavenly beings. “Blake saw visions and spoke a tongue like that of the illuminated cobbler.” (Sampson 495) William Blake was a very influential writer in his time; many poets were his successors from his ways of modernizing poetry in its rawest form. His works gave light to imagination and others to for see different symbols of life. Blake believed in the freedom in life because it makes a soul adventurous and creative in the paths you may take. Blake was very rebellious to the ordinary ways of style in his writings. “The most amazing thing about him is the perfectly sane and cheerful way in which he moved through poverty and obscurity, flinging out exquisite poems or senseless rhapsodies, as a child might play with gems or straws or sunbeams indifferently.” (Long

mercy, pity, peace and love. These four divine virtues are nothing but the reflection of Supreme Lord in Man, the best creation of him. It is conveyed through these lines that man should be in accordance with the mystical powers which he wrestles with his own soul; which not shadowed by harsh expe-rience will surely attain oneness with the lord. It is no empty boast to say that Blake would value his conception of divinity amidst his own visionary experiences. One can undoubtedly see the oneness of Blake’s own self with the mystical power of his own life which is demonstrated through his poet-ry. He seems to be soaring freely amid his own mystical space with the realization of his own spir-itual power hidden in him. It is also correctly viewed that innocence, forgiveness and love are the highest characteristics expressed philosophically in his poem. Moreover, rather than expressing Christian charity, here Blake emphasizes on each individual to recognize the very creativity and im-agination potentially hidden within

William Blake was a complicated writer as well as a complicated person. As a kid, he never attended school because his parents thought he was abnormal. William spent a lot of time talking about his dreams of Christ coming to him in the night. He learned how to read as well as write at home, but William wanted to go to an actual school. His parents decided to send him to an art school where he learned how to paint. William’s parents couldn’t afford school so he apprenticed an engraver for seven years. Working in churches doing engravings gave William the inspiration he later used in life to write all of his poems. If you read William Blake's work you will understand that most, if not all of his work is about Christ, as well as what Christ can do for us. You will notice in my comparison of his works ¨The Lamb¨ and ¨The Tyger¨ both closely relate to Christ along with what the heavens are about.

William Blake is one of the greatest Romantic writers of his time period, and his works are still being read and interpreted today. He wrote in ways that had not been seen before, in two different parts. One part would be the opposite of the other, covering both sides of story and it was a very invigorating new and improved way to write, that paved the way to the future. The first passage, “The Lamb” is a very great beautiful story, speaking from a child who is talking to a small lamb. This child is asking the lamb about where he came from, and what actually made him, or if he really even knows it is a statement for the innocence in the world. The next poem being, “The Tyger” is the exact opposite off innocence, the experience or ferocity, it describes a giant tiger, expressing how a tiger stays in the darkness of the forest, its eyes burning bright and fearless. The one poem that Blake wrote to protest child labor laws in England during his time period was, “The Chimney Sweeper” where a small child expresses what a daily life of a chimney sweep entails. It starts with a small child describing what happened to his family that put him in the Chimney Sweeping business, then it goes to describing how another child is crying because of having all of his hair cut off. But the biggest impact that is thrown into this passage, is that of the child’s dream, in this dream, all of the death around him from his

William Blake, a transitional figure in British literature, was the first romantic poet to focus on content instead of form. Blake is one of the great mystics of the world, like Henry More and Wordsworth; he lived in a world of glory, of spirit and of vision, which, for him, was the only real world. His devotion to God expresses through his lyrical poetry collection Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. This collection contains 51 poems where the poems of Innocence are counter part of the poems of Experience. ‘The Lamb’, ‘The Divine Image’ and are poems from Songs of Innocence and ‘The Tyger’, ‘The Sick Rose’ and ‘The Human Abstract’ are poems from Songs of Experience. Blake’s poetry can easily be interpreted by the theory of New Criticism that attempts to treat each work as its own distinct piece, free from its environment, era, and even author. Poetry is one of the most useful expressions of a mystic’s inner experiences. By nature Blake, a mystic is able to access a state of consciousness that is beyond the usual awareness of humanity. This paper will give a glimpse to its readers about Blake’s poetic vision on world, its connection with God along with a clear concept that unconsciously his lyrics maintain the theory of new critics who give more importance to close analysis of form, literary devices, and technique of a text.

Poetry is a form of writing that lets the writer have the ability to express themselves in a creative way. This allows the reader to be moved in a way that other literary works cannot. It’s no wonder that poetry has been around for a very long time. With the likes of Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Homer, who helped shaped poetry in some way, we often forget those who created wonderful works of art. One of those writers is William Blake. Much of Blake’s inspirations for his poems came from his childhood. Blake had begun having visions when he was around the age of four. He had even once claimed that he had seen God standing right next to his window. Aside from his visions, Blake had a religious upbringing, in which his parents had treated his visions as a gift. It’s easy for one to assume that his upbringing had a huge influence in his poems, as often times one can feel a sense of religious undertones in his writing. To help explore this concept, I will compare and contrast two of Blake's works, “The Tyger” and “The Lamb.” In this essay, I will examine and analyze both poems’ structures, the writing styles of both poems, and give my personal opinion on each of the poems’ purpose.

William Blake was a visionary English poet who lived from 1757-1827. He is now considered one of the most important figures of the Romantic Age. His works of poetry have become more important in the 21st century than anyone would’ve thought many years ago. Much of his poetry has obvious biblical references.

William Blake was a nineteenth century author and creative individual who is considered a huge figure of the Romantic Age. His writings have influenced many writers and artists through the ages, and he has been deemed both a serious author and a creative thinker. One William Blake 's works are “Holy Thursday from Songs of Innocence” and “Holy Thursday from Songs of Experience.” These two poems by Blake are simple examples of how deep and interesting poetry can be, many people might not understand it reading them for the first time. It can be a little complicated to analyze. However, reading these two versions of the poem line by line is the best way to understand it. Naser Emdad, the author of

William Blake is one of the major Romantic poets, whose verse and artwork became part of the wider movements of Romanticism in the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth centuries. Blake’s writing style combines a variety of styles as he is an artist, lyric poet, mystic and visionary at once. Blake’s work has fascinated, intrigued and even bewildered readers at times. Blake’s work ranges from deceptively simple and lyrical to highly elaborate and apocalyptic. In “The Land of Dreams”, we see elements of religion, family, and nature through symbolism, caesura and the rhyme structure of the poem.