William Blake Substance Abuse

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

“The Chimney Sweeper” (128): This version of the Chimney Sweeper is very upfront and saddening. The version that is presented in the songs of innocence is much more of a calm town and is not as straightforward, while this version is very short and to the point. In this version its very deep as the narrator basically just calls out the parents/church for doing these horrible things to the children. I really love all three stanzas of this poem because they all have a really deep meaning and Blake transitions through them very well. Reading this poem over and over I don’t know what to make of it other than it is an absolute horrible situation. I think it can be tied in to

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.

He always thought his father was going to save him and take him away. As time passed by, he saw that things were just getting worse between his mother and him and his father wouldn’t do nothing about it. He lost hope and didn’t care about anything. But he started to dream at night that one day he would get out of the hell hole he was living in. He realized that if he wanted to survive he would have to be strong and beat his mother at her torturing games. He just kept thinking to himself one day I will get out of here. He started building a self-esteem. He started realizing what was happening wasn’t his fault and one day decided to tell someone at school.

Cole is 15 years old and he is a boy. In his past there is a lot of bad things. His parents drink a lot. His parents beat him up. Mostly his dad does and his mom just watches.

Louis was born into a poor family on August 4, 1901 in New Orleans, louisiana. He was the grandson of a slave spending his childhood in poverty in a rough neighborhood that was called the battlefield. His dad William Armstrong had abandoned the family when louis was young to be with another women. Then his mother Mayann left him and his sister Beatrice in the care of Josephine, which was his grandmother.

Sonny’s Blues No one we know starts a life wanting to be a substance abuser or to be poor. Most of us want to be happy, rich, and successful. In “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin, an unnamed narrator tells the story of two struggling brothers who were separated and caught in the entanglement of time, space, and ideals.

His mother basically used him and abused him for her own amusement. She treated him as if he was her personal slave boy. She made him do all of the work around the house and even some work that made no sense for him to be doing. She made him do some really unnecessary task. She did not allow for Dave to speak or be around anyone but her and the time he spent with her mainly consisted on her torturing him. His mother did not always allow him to eat but when she did he was only allowed to eat the scrapes from the trash as he cleaned. Dave had no one to turn to. Even his father who tried helping him in the beginning gave up fighting the mother. Dave was truly alone and the abuse was simply excused by Dave’s mom as punishment for him for being such a bad kid. Dave’s father once tried to safe him and remove him from the clutches of his mother but this only made the abuse worse. She moved Dave out to the garage where he was made to sleep and she took away all his possible means of getting food. The only place she could not control his food was at school because of this Dave began stealing food from his classmates’ lunch boxes. When he was caught his mom was outraged about having to meet with the school and this only fueled her outrageous abuse towards him.

He still struggles with an obsession over technology and even when Blake left for college, he had never received the attention for which he lacked. Julia Fraga, a psychologist from San Francisco writes “Kids who aren’t given their fair share can be starved to be noticed. As they reach adolescence, they may act out or rebel to gain the attention of their parents, even if the attention is negative.” An example from Evan’s perspective was his sophomore year when he started to see a therapist for his depression and anxiety. He had been yearning for his parent’s attention so much that he acted out during school and had gotten into a fight. In addition, his grades had plummeted, whereas he had once been a straight-A student who loved to read. Due to Evan’s lack of interest in school, his parents took a more authoritative approach to get him back “in shape”. They had threatened to take away his electronics, put him to do outside labor, and forced him into basketball to make friends. But to Evan, this was another reason for him to get “out of their hair”. There were many times when Evan heard his parents talking about how they wished Evan would just be a little more confident like Blake was, more sporty, or even less of a challenge. Things like this, caused Evan to feel insecure about how much of a person he is and could be. He couldn’t live up to their expectations, and he was essentially living in the shadow

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.

In order to exist in nature and in human, innocence requires experience. The author, William Blake divided his poems into two volumes which are Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. “The Lamb” is the poem from Songs of Innocence and “The Tyger” is from Songs of Experience. In “The Lamb,” Blake writes in an incomplex, childlike way asking an innocent lamb who made it. In “The Tyger,” Blake asks who could have possibly made something as formidable as the tiger. William Blake uses archetypes in his poems “The Lamb” and “The Tyger.”

Corey (14) was referred by his mother to a child guidance clinic due to fighting at home and school. Corey and his two brothers live with mother Brenda and her live-in boyfriend, Carl. Carl moved in 18 months ago, six months after Corey’s father died. Corey’s father was abusive to him and his mother, but his death was sudden and Corey has been withdrawn and sullen since the death. He is verbally abusive to his mother and violent to his younger brothers. He likes Carl, but when Carl intervenes to stop Corey’s violence and verbal aggression, their relationship becomes strained. His mother has very little power to discipline Corey.

Similar circumstances were experienced in Brandon case, for example, all males in his family had criminal records, which made it difficult for him to have someone to guide him through the right path. His father was murdered on the street by being shot six times in the head when Brandon was 4 years old. Also, his grandmother, who lived with him and his mother, was a drug addict, and most of the time little Brandon was surrounded by violence and negative

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.

William Blake was a writer and a painter in the late 1700s and early 1800s whose imagination was untamed and incomprehensible to most ordinary people of his time. Blake was different from most writers of his who were trying to be famous and get people?s attention. Everything Blake did was for himself and he was not willing to change for money or popularity. William Blake is often considered to be insanely genius because of his transition to a new literary era, known as Romanticism, and for his depictions of life from the viewpoints of a child and an adult.