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    an angel freeing people from coffins. In “The Chimney Sweeper” by William Blake, both stories use concrete imagery, a strong emotional connection, and has an underlying symbolic theme of bible references to create a mood to the story. Although there are two versions to “The Chimney Sweeper” they are different in length and the family itself. “The Chimney Sweeper” uses a very specific word choice to show the concrete imagery Blake uses. “... leaping, laughing they run” (15) and “wash in the river

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    William Blake's poem, "The Tyger," create striking images used to question religion and contrast good and evil. The Tyger could be inspiration, the divine, artistic creation, history, or vision itself. Creating a imagery of fire evokes the fierceness and potential danger of the tiger, which itself represents what is evil or dreaded. "Tyger Tyger, burning bright… In the forests of the night," Blake begins, conjuring the image of a tiger's eyes burning in the darkness. "In what distant deeps or skies

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    The Lamb and The Tyger William Blake, a prominent poet in the late 1800s, wrote some of the most meaningful pieces that are still looked at today by many. Poems are unique because they must arrive to the point while also compacting all of the necessary literary devices needed for a concise message. William Blake does just this especially in his contrasting poems The Lamb and The Tyger. The poems The Tyger and The Lamb along with their literary devices coexist in order to create romanticism and

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    “The Lamb”, a poem from a series written by William Blake, begins with and revolves around a young lamb who has not yet experienced the world and its mishaps. Center of the poem, the lamb is continuously being examined. Through the use of rhetorical questions, allusions, symbols, and other figurative language, Blake clearly illustrates the theme that innocence provides a means for taking joy in natural creation. While the lamb referred to in this poem of Blake’s is portrayed to be tender and very

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    were allowed to use firsthand experience to guide their creativity. Romantics created their poetry by using their own heartfelt emotions. William Blake, I believe, was a visionary with more of a theological or spiritual tone in both his writings and his paintings, whereas William Wordsworth used temporal viewpoints to help him describe his reality of nature. Blake and Wordsworth both used their talent for creating art and

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    distinguish. He does not care. Does he feel lonely? What is his necessity to take individuals with him for the rest of eternity? This black shadow known as death, roams night and day. He roams without any rest. A. E. Housman, Edwin Denby, and William Blake each have a different perspective towards death. Housman talks about death as an impatient being, Denby describes it as something that fights against us,

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    Comparing The Tyger And Songs Of Experience

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    William Blake was one of England’s greatest writers (Tejvan) in the nineteenth century, but his brilliancy was not noticed until after he was deceased. Blake was very much a free spirit who often spoke his mind and was very sensitive to cruelty. At the age of twenty five he married a woman named Catherine Boucher. They created a book of all Blake’s poems called Songs on Innocence, which was not very popular while he was alive. On the other hand Blake’s other book of poems, Songs of Experience, were

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    the mid-nineteenth century, two poets, William Wordsworth, who emphasized the importance of finding and preserving beauty in nature, and William Blake, who focused more on imagination and the human existence, rose to the forefront of the British romantic movement. Although they differed slightly in their inspirations and styles of writing, Wordsworth and Blake were both successful in conveying their romantic ideologies through their respective works. William Wordsworth, regarded by many as the pioneer

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    Poetry: Blake’s Biblical References William Blake’s illustrated collection of poems, “Songs of Innocence and Experience”, were written to contrast the different elements of the human soul. Throughout the collection, Blake redefines both innocence and experience, and closely contrasts them through two parallel poems, “The Lamb” and “The Tyger”. Both poems incorperate biblical references, amd present a clearer view of the relationship between innocence and experience. Blake was a pious man, and as a young

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    Essay about The Good and Evil

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    “The Tyger” provides a harsh tone which can create tension as “The Lamb” has a simplistic tone that can evoke a mild meaning. Even though both tones are present in these two poems, “The Lamb” and “The Tyger” their themes are of greater importance then the vague language. The language used in each of these poems respectfully give distorted impressions of the poem's significance. The themes present are the evil in this world, the relationship between the Creator and His creation, and the initial

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