William Blake Research Paper

The poet, painter and engraver, William Blake was born in 1757, to a London haberdasher. Blake’s only formal education was in art. At the age of ten, he entered a drawing school and then at the age of fourteen, he apprenticed to an engraver. ( Abrams & Stillinger 18). Although, much of Blake’s time was spent studying art, he enjoyed reading and soon began to write poetry. Blake’s first book of poems, Poetical Sketches, "showed his dissatisfaction with the reigning poetic tradition and his restless quest for new forms and techniques" ( Abrams & Stillinger 19). Poetical Sketches, was followed by many other works including, Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. These series were accompanied by etchings, which depict

In the poems "The Lamb" and "The Tyger," William Blake uses symbolism, tone, and rhyme to advance the theme that God can create good and bad creatures. The poem "The Lamb" was in Blake's "Songs of Innocence," which was published in 1789. "The Tyger," in his "Songs of Experience," was published in 1794. In these contrasting poems he shows symbols of what he calls "the two contrary states of the human soul" (Shilstone 1).

The most leading literary device used in Blake’s poems is symbolism. In this particular poem, “The Lamb” is a reference to God himself. This is because of the trinity that is involved with being a Christ follower. The trinity is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. The child in the poem, is a symbol as innocence and purity just like Jesus Christ. Christians are to “receive the kingdom of God like a child” (Luke 18:17, ESV). This means that we are to have child-like faith, and trust in God, just like children do in their parents.

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.

Children are always portrayed in books as angelic beings that are as close to perfect as they come. Many would suggest that this is not true, that children can be just as manipulative and conniving as adults. They cry when they do not get their way and throw tantrums that are quite obscene. However, the idea of this angelic child did not com into play until the 17th century. The poets William Blake and William Wordsworth are the two poets that coined this idea of the child. In the poems of these two authors, children are portrayed as innocent and pure beings and are closer to God than adults. Although these two poets have very different views of what children are like such as their interactions with adults, their perspective on life, and their

Andrew Lloyd Webber was born on March 22, 1948 in Kensington, London, England. His mother was a violinist and pianist and his father was a composer. He learned how to play the piano, violin and French horn and started writing his own music when he was 6 years old. Lloyd Webber would often put on productions with his younger brother, Jullian, a renowned cellist. His first work of six short pieces titled The Toy Theatre Suite was published when he was only 9. He liked to stage musical productions with his brother and aunt in a toy theatre that he set up at home and idolized Richard Rodgers who composed Oklahoma, The King and I and South Pacific. South Pacific was Lloyd Webber’s favorite of Rodgers’ works.

William Blake was born on November 28, 1757 in the city of London, where he spent most of his life. His family lived in a respectable, but not pretentious, lifestyle. He was one of seven children of James and Catherine Harmitage Blake, but only five lived into adulthood.

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

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.

At first, he has offered the world with beats and tunes that are reminiscent of the biggest EDM artists that have conquered early 2010. The genius in him had produced melodies and string of sounds that are just irresistible to not dance to and after series of exposures, he displayed that there’s more to him than just beats. After quite some rolls on various stages, he then shocked his growing fans that yes, his vocal chords can do wonders too. The versatility of his brain to simultaneously do electronic music and impeccably sing at the same time is more than enough for the world to know him more. If you’re on the look-out for an awesome artist to dominate your playlists, then try James Blake and never regret it.

Born in London, England, William Byrd would become one of the most famous composers in England's history. At the age of seven, young William was taught how to compose music by a man named Thomas Tallis while in a royal group called the Chapel Royal, which was a group of priests and religious leaders who played music for the King and Queen. He started his career in 1563 at the Lincoln Cathedral where he was the Master of Children and an organist, a job that he shared with Thomas. As he grew up, he became so good at his skill of composing music that he became a gentlemen of the Chapel Royal. This connection to royalty made him well known for his skill and noblemen became his patrons. As a Roman-Catholic in a Protestant England, he often bothered the authorities at the time, but the amount of trust he had in the government and his great composing skill made him a respected figure and one of the most famous people in England's history.

The poem opens up with the words, “Tyger Tyger, burning bright,” which in this case makes the words Tyger appear to the reader as if the author is speaking directly to the Tyger and sets up the theme of night along with which come darkness and evil. The words “burning bright” are used as a comparison to the Tyger. Blake chooses fire to be compared to the Tyger because both are known to be harmful, strong, wild, forceful, and destructive. In a way, they also resemble each other in looks, as a Tyger in the dark, looks like a fire because of its orange stripes. The third and fourth lines aske the first unanswered question: What creator has the ability to make something with such “fearful symmetry” (4)? The second stanza asks the same question but in a completely different way, wondering where the Tyger came from. In lines 10 and 20, Blake’s asks two questions. These questions are different from the rest, he asks, “Did he smile his work to see? /Did he who made the lamb make thee?’’ (19, 20) These lines are asking if the creator was happy with his work of such destructive soul, it also asks if the creator of the lamb was also the creator of the Tyger. You can look at this as if Blake was trying to connect the evil Tyger with the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ. The last lines ask the same question as the first, who could and who would create the Tyger.

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.

Knowledge was cherished by Blake. He argued that through knowledge one can truly understand Christ, and when this understanding is reached one can then begin to become Christ. Christ was the pinnacle of what a human should strive to be. God and Christ were placed on the same level, and God was not a "clockmaker" or some supreme being placed outside of human capacity; rather, Blake argued that God is something that resides in all of humanity. Blake coined this "Divine Humanity", the potential for all humanity to come full circle and be humanly divine; this is possible because God and Jesus are both living inside of us from