Compare And Contrast The Garden Of Love And Harwood

Theological tyranny is the subject of The Book of Urizen (1794). In the prose work The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-93), he satirized oppressive authority in church and state, as well as the works of Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish philosopher whose ideas once attracted his interest. Blake’s main concept was imagination and many people questioned if he was brilliant or just completely insane. William Blake was influenced by many great thinkers of his day, and was well aware of the conflicts that were arising between science and the arts in his era. In his work, he makes sure to define reason and explain how it differs from passions. He even assigned personalities to represent the conflicts and characteristics of these definitions in his poetry and art. There have been many men who loved to speculate the future. William Blake was one of these men, and if he spoke incoherently and obscurely, it was because what he spoke had never been discovered before. He announced the religion of art, which no man had ever done before him, and he understood it better than anyone else.

Every person faces a series of internal battles throughout his or her life. These battles can be in the form of a mental illness, uncertainty, fear, and many more. To overcome these mental battles takes a great amount of mental and emotional strength. In Margaret Atwood’s “Sor Juana Works in the Garden,” Atwood uses gardening and poetry to represent the internal battle against society and fear for the future. In Mary Oliver’s “The Journey,” Oliver takes a different approach towards representing an internal battle, she writes about the battle of depression. Both “The Journey” and “Sor Juana Works in the Garden” address internal battles in similar and different ways.

For many people, the thought of death is a terrifying concept to fathom. Whether a beloved family member, pet, or even emotions have died, death in any form continues to be a challenging subject to communicate about to others. From dances to songs and from paintings to writings, people express their views on death in a variety of forms and fashions. In William Cullen Bryant’s “Thanatopsis” and Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,” death exists as the main topic of both poems; however, Bryant’s and Thomas’s opinions on death contrast greatly in both works as a result of each poet’s religious beliefs, experiences, family and decisions that influenced the poems. Bryant and Thomas held different religious beliefs that influenced

The central theme of conflict is dissected by various poets using numerous literary techniques. Particularly, physical, gender, social, and existential conflict is explored using literary technique by the poets.

Compare the ways in which Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Blake’s Song of Innocence poems have explored the theme of religion.

nt ideas. ‘All Religions Are One’, and ‘There is No Natural Religion’ were composed in hopes of bringing change to the public’s spiritual life. Blake felt that, unlike most people, his spiritual life was varied, free and dramatic. Blake’s poetry features many characteristics of the romantic spirit. The romanticism of Blake consists in the importance he attached to imagination, in his mysticism and symbolism, in his love of liberty, in his humanitarian sympathies, in his idealization of childhood, in the pastoral setting of many of his poems, and in his lyricism

In a self-exploration of one’s own past, Alice Carry analyzes the difference between her beloved past and the present. With time and age, things do not stay the same, because it is the natural cycle that cannot be avoided, however, it is those experiences from another time that make character set in stone. In her poem “Contradiction”, the speaker reminisces on her beautifully simple lifestyle growing up in a secluded town as opposed to the city life, but realizes that it has not changed her, despite the influences that come with a new environment. With stunning imagery of nature and evocation of the universal idea of home, Carry preaches how one has to accept that fate is inevitable.

Love makes people become selfish, but it is also makes the world greater. In this poem, the world that the speaker lives and loves is not limited in “my North, my South, my East and West / my working week and my Sunday rest” (9-10), it spreads to “My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song (11). The poem’s imagery dominates most of the third stanza giving readers an image of a peaceful world in which everything is in order. However, the last sentence of the stanza is the decisive element. This element not only destroys the inner world of the speaker, but it also sends out the message that love or life is mortal.

The poem “A Poison Tree” by William Blake discusses human nature’s true form. Someone who is furious with a friend would obviously want to mend the friendship, so they let their anger simmer. However, someone who is upset with an enemy has no reason to tell him or herself to not be mad because all they are to you is an enemy. Therefore, your hatred eventually takes over and you do something dreadful. This literary composition shows the readers how anger can take a toll in two different directions. The poet writes with such ease, that it makes us readers believe he’s gone through it already.

William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience are collections of poems that utilize the imagery, instruction, and lives of children to make a larger social commentary. The use of child-centered themes in the two books allowed Blake to make a crucial commentary on his political and moral surroundings with deceptively simplistic and readable poetry. Utilizing these themes Blake criticized the church, attacking the hypocritical clergy and pointing out the ironies and cruelties found within the doctrines of organized religion. He wrote about the horrific working conditions of children as a means to magnify the inequality between the poor working class and

Blake’s two poems are both told from a child’s point of view, which is different from many works and forces adult readers to realize the fault in society’s standards through the bleak eyes of the many unfortunate children.

If two poems about prayer are laid side by side, logic and statistics would state that the two poems should be somewhat alike in content. Prayer is supposed to be a universally mutual sensation among all people of the world. Prayer is also normally seen in a good light with a positive reputation. Prayer known to be a helpful tool to seek aid from or send thanks to the deity of the devotee’s choice. Openly criticizing prayer in writing or verse is not a common phenomenon. George Herbert and Gerard Manley Hopkins took the matter into their own hands and broke from the crowd. Both poets expressed extreme opinions and recorded their experiences and thoughts of prayer. Though both poems share the same base topic, their content and opinion varies.

To understand what is being said in such poems as "THE GARDEN OF LOVE" and "The Little Vagabond" one must consider the poet's religious, or shall I say spiritual, position. William Blake considered himself to be a monistic Gnostic. That is, he believed what saved a person's soul was not faith but knowledge. Faith, he felt, was a term that was abused by those who thought spending every Sunday in a church would grant them eternal salvation regardless of what actions they exhibited outside the walls of the church. Church ceremonies were also dry, emotionless and meaningless, according to Blake. Church was evil, as Blake would have put it.

Some of the recurrent themes and motifs in Hopkins’ poetry include the idea that the world resembles a book written by God, through which he expresses himself in order to provide humans with an opportunity to understand and approach him (Gardner 11). In ‘God’s Grandeur’ Hopkins can be seen to express his concern about the spiritual crisis of the Victorian period. During this time of urbanization and industrialization, Hopkins voiced his distress about human indifference to destruction. This poem is one of the very few which he wrote during the time when he served as a priest.

The period before these two poems were written in was filled with religious dissent that first began with Henry VIII’s establishment of the Church of England. This action began a long chain of religious opposition between this new Protestant movement and Catholicism. From entire Protestant rules such as the rule of Henry’s son, James I, to the slaughter and persecution of Protestants in the rule of Mary I, England was searching for a religious identity that