Vala, or The Four Zoas

Describing Blake’s mythology, we can rely on the concept of multi-myths that represent the fact that different views are put forward by individual speakers. This is obvious in The Four Zoas in which the characters give contradictory perspectives of the death of Albion. The myth is retold, thus, recreated and this act can reflect Blake’s view of the myth-making process, being also an act that ensures the transition of mythical stories

The motto of The Four Zoas is: ??from Ephesians characterizes the tone of the work. ?For over contention is not with the blood and the flesh, but with dominion, with authority with the blind world- rulers of this life, with the spirit of evil in things heavenly.??17 The meaning

The Representation of the Female in William Blake If William Blake was, as Northrop Frye described him in his prominent book Fearful Symmetry, "a mystic enraptured with incommunicable visions, standing apart, a lonely and isolated figure, out of touch with his own age and without influence on the following one" (3), time has proved to be the visionary's most celebrated ally, making him one of the most frequently written about poets of the English language. William Blake has become

William Blake For this paper I choose to do a study of William Blake. I choose William Blake because I really liked some of his poems and he is considered one of the most renowned poets in English literature history. He liked to write poems that could be understood by the everyday man, because most of his poem were about the everyday man, but he refused to sacrifice his visions in order to become popular. His work combines a variety of writing styles, he is an artist, a lyric poet and a visionary