Thoughts on William Blake William Blake’s radical thoughts and unconventional ideals led him to a life full of ridicule by critics. However, despite being unappreciated during the eighteenth century, he was quite a brilliant man who was ahead of his time. As a man who questioned the social norms of his period, his poetry pushed the boundaries of literature. He criticized slavery, religion, and the monarchy and he even analyzed human psychology in many of his works. Some of his famous poems include “Garden of Love”, “The Tyger”, “A Poison Tree”, and “The Little Black Boy”. Each of these poems depict Blake’s strong opinions and observations of the world around him. For instance, “Garden of Love” is interpreted as a poem where Blake expresses
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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.
William Blake, now one of the most famous Romantic poets of the era, was given nearly no recognition for his influential works during his lifetime. He strove to break free from the pattern of thoughts that defined common experience, and this was ever present in his works of literature. Perhaps his most renowned pieces were his two collections of poems titled Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, which illustrated the progression of man from childhood to adulthood, and demonstrated how the unpleasantries of life brings about the maturation from childhood to adulthood, and greatly affect how people view the world. In Songs of Innocence, the series that Blake wrote when he was young, he suggests that by recapturing the wonderment of childhood,
William Blake was an English engraver, painter, and poet of the early Romantic Age. Today, his works of poetry such as “The Tyger” and “The Little Girl Lost” are anthologized in books across the world (Mcgills). His works of art, ranging from watercolors to engravings, can be viewed on display in art museums from a multitude of countries (Britannica). Despite the fact that William Blake died an uncelebrated artist, the impact of his work can be found around the world in places ranging from picture books to religious theology.
William Blake’s poetry contains many themes of religion. Examining Blake’s works, The Chimney Sweeper and The Little Black Boy shows an example of this. In The Chimney Sweeper Tom dreams an angel comes to him and tells him “If he’d be a good boy, he’d have God for his father & never want joy” (122). Upon waking the next day, despite the cold temperatures, Tom feels warm even though he had to work hard in a potentially deadly job that he was forced into. Could this be because he had a great dream? An angel came to him and essentially told him he would be okay and as long as he works hard, God will love him. Could this be a coping mechanism for Tom? He suffers while being exploited but maybe the way he deals with this is by feeling that he won’t
During the beginning of the Romantic Era the French Revolution was taking it's course and in the wake of it's path were several political, social, and economical reforms. These revolutionary changes were encapsulated in the arts and literature. This was a time of great uncertainty which further provoked reflective, sometimes radical, thought. Some of the prominent writers of the era include William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and John Keats. These visionary writers used their imaginations to create an escape from and to illustrate the happenings of the age. As the world in which these writers lived was changing, the literature which they produced would also take on transformations. The literature of this era was both influential to and influenced by the notion of revolution. Described in this section of the text, “Polemical essays and pamphlets helped shape the controversies, and so did various forms of literary writing: sonnets and songs, ballads and poetic epistles, tales and plays, the sensationally turned narrative and the didactic novel. Even literature not forged in the social and political turbulence was caught by a
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.
William Blake was born in London, England on November 28, 1757. Blake left school at a young age, only staying to learn how to read and write. The Bible was a primary source of inspiration for him, he claimed to have received visions from God at a young age. Blake was multi-talented in the arts, not only was he a poet, but he was also a painter and an engraver. He also taught his illiterate wife to read and write. Blake’s work was considered a very influential figure of the Romantic Age. He worked hard on projects up until his death on August 12, 1827, some were left unfinished. Though his work went unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake’s creations have remained a heavy influence for modern-day writers and
William Blake is one of the most renowned poets in the history of English literature. Born to the owners of a hosiery shop on Broad Street in the center of London in 1757, William Blake developed into a toddler of extraordinary imagination. While only a young boy (around the age of four), he spoke to his parents of seeing angels playing amongst him, encountering visions of heaven and hell throughout London and the nearby countryside, and spotting God keeping a close eye on him during tasks and chores. It was not long before the young Blake began to stencil out the visions from his imagination, and as an eleven year old, he enlisted in Pars’ Drawing School to learn the art of printing and plaster casting.
William Blake was an artist and poet. He was born in England in 1757. He unlike any other poet was not educated in religion and literature, and instead he was sent to drawing school. He love writing poetry so when he died at age seventy he died doing what he loved. Before he was a poet he worked as an apprentice to engraver who carved pictures into plates then the were use for printing.
"The Tyger" by William Blake, has many different translations, however its primary reason for existing is to address God as a maker. Its graceful style produces a striking picture that urges the reader to picture the Tyger as a scary and terrifying creature. The speaker keeps the theme, regardless of whether a similar God who made the lamb, a delicate animal, could have additionally framed the Tyger and all its dark sides. This idea is used through numerous tools including rhyme, redundancy, allusion, and imagery, all of these appear through all of the poem and are built up to make a solid picture of the Tyger and a not as much as extensive translation of its maker.
William Blake was more than just a poet. He was an artist, a politician and a theologian. Blake was born in 1757 and died in 1827, He was known for his artistic talent and political involvement. Born in to a middle class family in London, Blake was one of 7 children born to his family, but only 5 of them survived past infancy. Blake did not receive any formal schooling and mostly spent his days wandering the streets of London (Poetry Fdn.). When he was ten he was enrolled in art school for multiple years and when he was 14 he became an apprentice engraver to James Basire (Poetry Fdn.). His work as an engraver allowed him to make money and continue to hone his artistic ability. Blakes artistry is clearly seen in most of his poems, whether its his early political works such as “America” or his classic lyric poems like “The Tyger”. (Poetry Fdn.). In “The Tyger” William Blake unconventionally questions the creation of the world through rhyme scheme, deep imagery, and conflicting ideas.
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.
During the midst of the French Revolution, many people began writing and several became famous. Some of these authors wrote about experiences, and others just formed an imagination with the help of their surroundings. William Blake was influenced by both of the strategies and excelled in the art of poetry. He was also influenced by many of the other poetry authors of the day. Among his greatest works was his collection of poems known as Songs of Innocence and Experience. Although this is not all of his poems in a collection, it is one of the most famous collections of poems in history. Blake uses a great amount of complicated symbols in his poetry which are difficult to decipher, and he also