William Blake

Ranked 38th in a BBC poll of the hundred greatest Britons, with only British poet

Before watching your presentation, I only knew the basics regarding William Blake. There are various interesting things that you mentioned that I did not know about. For example, you mentioned how he was more commonly known for his art rather than his poems. His art as a whole is really interesting. You mentioned how he took his encounters with the people around him, his brother’s death, and visions and reflected them into his work. One thing from that list that stood out to me the most were his visions. He was able to take his visions and portray them in his paintings even when many people found it difficult to understand the meanings behind it.

On January 1st, 2017, a gang held an alleyway waiting for people to come through so they and take their money. The alley was very dark. People came through the alley at nights and trashed the alley, cracking windows, leaving cigarettes on the dirty spray-painted ground littered with sharp shards of glass from a broken window. Their leader, Kole Blazer, was there in the rooftops, waiting for someone to come through, when he saw someone betray his gang: Mike Blazer, his brother. Kole was taller than him by only a few inches. He had brown hair, freckles, blue eyes, more muscular than his brother who was always the weaker one, but they were twins and he wanted to keep a secret. His brother betrayed them and now it’s time for payback.

“EWW!”, went the crowd when Blake fell to the ground. When Blake hit the ground, the turf did not give much at all. Furthermore, it resulted in him breaking his leg. To play on the turf, was a bad idea we all knew. Mr. Ray, athletic trainer, put his leg in a boot and gave him a pair of crutches to use. The next day Coach Topps sent a group message saying, “Guys, keep Blake in your prayers and visit him as teammates should. Because we are a family and that is what family’s do.” Not only did many go see Blake, but also many prayed for him. Although Blake continues to get better, he still has a long way to go to recovery.

Romanticism is described as the period across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, following The Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution, that enlightened artists and philosophers developed and expressed revolutionary responses to injustices at the time. On such revolutionary was poet artist William Blake. Blake lived and wrote in England at a time when the Christian Church and Industrialisation held utmost power over people. The philosophic writer saw such values and attitudes as crimes against nature and human nature and sought to protest. William Blake, in his protesting works like Garden of Love and A Little Boy Lost, through the use of irony, sarcasm, aesthetic and metaphor, expresses concerns of corrupted 18th and 19th century Britons.

The Romantics, like William Blake and Lord Byron, put emphasis on feelings and moral sensitivity hoping to make their readers better people by doing so, which influenced a significant change in what people thought made a hero a hero. In other words, they set a new standard for people through their works. This new idea of a hero eventually became known as the Byronic hero, named after the Romantic poet Lord Byron. Romantic writers used their imagination and talent to help redefine the values of society, setting a new standard of what it means to be a hero.

The late eighteenth-century marked the start of the Industrial Revolution that took London by storm, bringing new technological and economic progress to the once agrarian society. However, with this revolution came severe corruption and poverty overlooked by the new-found prosperity these advancements brought. Outraged by the corruption creeping its way into London’s society, William Blake, a romantic poet, became a vocal social critic, focusing on the injustices of child labor. Blake used his poetry to reveal the harsh realities of lower class children in eighteenth-century London, and to critique the role organized religion and society, which he believed was the source that failed these children. Blake saw childhood as a state of infinite

Born in 1757, poet William Blake grew up through the height of the Enlightenment period, where individuals begin to focus on themselves and discover their emotions, instead of living to achieve approval from a greater God. It is evident in Blake’s poems The Poison Tree and The Garden of Love that he is greatly influenced by these revolutionary ideas that are being discovered throughout his early life. Blake seems to have significantly removed himself from the Church and their teachings, due to the recent revelations of the importance of focusing on humans and their emotions. These ideals coincide with the movement during the eighteenth century where people began to realize that there is no sin in indulging in personal pleasure, regardless of what the Christian church has preached for hundreds of years. In The Garden of Love and The Poison Tree it is evident that William Blake is influenced by the Enlightenment ideals of individualism; therefore, he grapples

From London, England, William Blake was born the 28th of November in 1757. Blake was born to a middle-class family and as a child he was a trouble-maker in school, he constantly did not attend school, therefore his parents attempted to educate him at home. He, “lived and worked in the teeming metropolis of London at a time of great social and political change,” that deeply influenced his writing. He believed that his writings were important and that they could be understood by a majority of men.

Blake a romantic poet who doesn't write romance poems but poems of his love of nature. In his poems though it's not only about the love of nature ,but also having innocence and experience put inside the poems. So far we have read 4 poems of Blake's two are poems of experience and two of innocence, the two experience poems are the Tyger and the Chimney Sweeper and the two innocence poems are the Lamb and Infant Sorrow. The poem that is my favorite out of these is the chimney sweeper which is an experience poem. It has obviously experience, joy and sorrow hidden away in the poem which makes it interesting to read.

William Blake, a 19th century writer and artist who, to this day, is respected as an admirable character of the Romantic Age. Blake’s writings have altered endless writers and artists throughout generations, and he has been suspected to represent both a dominant poet and an authentic thinker.

William Blake’s collection of poetry reflects greatly on the distressed life he had. The view that he had of the world, 18th century Europe in particular, affected many people throughout literatures history. He spoke of innocence but also of experience which gave the impression he was once deeply involved with each, although they are very different.

Blake’s Songs of Experience was published in 1794 against the backdrop of Robespierre’s Reign of Terror and England’s war with France. Blake, an English Jacobin who, as his biographer Gilchrist writes, “courageously donned the famous symbol of liberty and equality—thebonnet-rouge—in open day; and philosophically walked the streets with the same on his head” (93), was by this date becoming increasingly disenchanted in his hopes for sweeping political reform in England. One does not often speak of Romantic poets as political activists. (1) The image of the Romantic poet most common is the one put forth by Stanley Applebaum, who writes, “Even today the word poet conjures up the Romantic notion: an individualistic, inspired seer revealing

William Blake is one of England’s most famous literary figures. He is remembered and admired for his skill as a painter, engraver, and poet. He was born on Nov. 28, 1757 to a poor Hosier’s family living in or around London. Being of a poor family, Blake received little in the way of comfort or education while growing up. Amazingly, he did not attend school for very long and dropped out shortly after learning to read and write so that he could work in his father’s shop. The life of a hosier however was not the right path for Blake as he exhibited early on a skill for reading and drawing. Blake’s skill for reading can be seen in his understanding for and use of works such as the Bible and Greek classic literature.

Poetry is a fascinating tool for touching upon the personal feelings of people and inspiring them in impacting ways. Among the most notable pieces of poetry are remembered by society as having a substantial effect on culture and critical thinking. One of the more influential pieces of poetry throughout the course of time has been that of William Blake. Blake is known for his poetry of immensely deep meaning and his methods for connecting the themes of the poem with the language and description of his content. One of his more influential works is that of The Tyger where Blake attempts to capture both the beauty and ferociousness of the tiger as a creation. The poem itself compares the creation of the lamb as a peaceful and straightforward creature whereas the tiger is a beast that carries much more substance. In a way, the works of William Blake allow the audience members to reflect a little more deeply on nature and perhaps take a second look at other aspects of their life. The descriptive content of William Blake’s works is widely regarded as one of the more influential set of works of poetry of its time, and for very good reason.