Blake Archetypes
Yin-Yang
(Three messages from Blake’s Archetypes)
With the Yin-yang symbol for people it has the thought of a lamb and a tiger. The Lamb has a gentle, innocent kind of outlook to it and the tiger has a fierce, outgoing look to it. They are completely different animals in every way but they complete each other because life has a perfect balance to it with both animals. In Blake’s archetypes they talk about how the lamb is for christianity and shows the goodness in people's life. The tiger that Blake writes about is talking about the strength that people can have when they do not have good experiences. In the chimney sweeper it talks about how children are neglected because their parents no longer want them. Infant Sorrow talks about the disappointment that the parents have when their child is born and how they no longer want them. In Blake’s archetypes it has the messages of innocence, strength, neglect, and disappointment. …show more content…
The first message in Blake’s archetype is from the lamb which is the innocence and christianity.
In the lamb, it shows that the lamb is gentle and has that nice, sweet outcome on life. The lamb is supposed to show an innocent creature that can be used as an image from God. People have shown mercy to the lamb because it is soft, the feeling of their wool has put a great imprint on some. On the yin-yang symbol the lamb represents the white innocent side so it halfway completes the life of the common people. “He is meek & he is mild, He became a little child: I a child & thou a lamb,(Lines 15-17)” In this quote it talks about how the lamb is like a little child all with the cuteness and adorableness. The lamb is very timid and is very fearful which is not always a good thing but not always a bad thing
either.
The second message is from the tyger in Blake’s archetypes which is strength and they are very strong willed. The tyger is a strong animal and does not show its weaknesses or back down from anything or anybody. “In the forests of the night: What immortal hand or eye, Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?(Lines 22-24)” In this quote it talks about how the tiger is a very fearful animal and how people are in danger when around that kind of animal/person. The tyger has shown a lot of people that it is not scared of others and it is not afraid to tell people what it really means without holding back. The tyger can be a very dominant creature and a very majestic creature all at the sametime.
The third message from Blake’s archetypes is from the poems chimney sweeper and infant sorrow, they both talk about neglect and disappointment. They both relate to children that are not wanted by their parents but it chimney sweeper they make the orphans clean the rich people's chimneys early in the morning. In infant sorrow the mother gives birth but the father of the baby cries tears of sorrow and the mother groans. Not only are these children not wanted but they have to do unsanitary things and usually do not make it to adulthood. “My mother groand! my father wept. Into the dangerous world I leapt: Helpless, naked, piping loud; Like a fiend hid in a cloud.( Lines 1-4)” In this quote from Infant sorrow it talks about how the parents weep and moan and the baby is leaping into the world full of fear. “A little black thing among the snow, Crying "weep! 'weep!" in notes of woe! "Where are thy father and mother? say?"(Lines 1-3)” In this quote the child cries out for his parents that are both gone which leaves him at the orphanage. All together these stories have had a great outcome and they have shown very detailed messages. THey all tie together in a way because they all have to do with the yin-yang symbol. The lamb and They tyger are one yin-yang symbol and chimney sweeper and infant sorrow is another. The lamb and the tyger because the lamb is very gentle and nice, but the tyger is very outgoing and hard-headed. In chimney sweeper and infant sorrow, chimney sweeper does not care about th struggles that the children go through and in infant sorrow the parents are worried about all the troubles their child will have throughout her life.
(Three messages from Blake’s Archetypes)
With the Yin-yang symbol for people it has the thought of a lamb and a tiger. The Lamb has a gentle, innocent kind of outlook to it and the tiger has a fierce, outgoing look to it. They are completely different animals in every way but they complete each other because life has a perfect balance to it with both animals. In Blake’s archetypes they talk about how the lamb is for christianity and shows the goodness in people's life. The tiger that Blake writes about is talking about the strength that people can have when they do not have good experiences. In the chimney sweeper it talks about how children are neglected because their parents no longer want them. Infant Sorrow talks about the disappointment that the parents have when their child is born and how they no longer want them. In Blake’s archetypes it has the messages of innocence, strength, neglect, and disappointment. …show more content…
The first message in Blake’s archetype is from the lamb which is the innocence and christianity.
In the lamb, it shows that the lamb is gentle and has that nice, sweet outcome on life. The lamb is supposed to show an innocent creature that can be used as an image from God. People have shown mercy to the lamb because it is soft, the feeling of their wool has put a great imprint on some. On the yin-yang symbol the lamb represents the white innocent side so it halfway completes the life of the common people. “He is meek & he is mild, He became a little child: I a child & thou a lamb,(Lines 15-17)” In this quote it talks about how the lamb is like a little child all with the cuteness and adorableness. The lamb is very timid and is very fearful which is not always a good thing but not always a bad thing
either.
The second message is from the tyger in Blake’s archetypes which is strength and they are very strong willed. The tyger is a strong animal and does not show its weaknesses or back down from anything or anybody. “In the forests of the night: What immortal hand or eye, Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?(Lines 22-24)” In this quote it talks about how the tiger is a very fearful animal and how people are in danger when around that kind of animal/person. The tyger has shown a lot of people that it is not scared of others and it is not afraid to tell people what it really means without holding back. The tyger can be a very dominant creature and a very majestic creature all at the sametime.
The third message from Blake’s archetypes is from the poems chimney sweeper and infant sorrow, they both talk about neglect and disappointment. They both relate to children that are not wanted by their parents but it chimney sweeper they make the orphans clean the rich people's chimneys early in the morning. In infant sorrow the mother gives birth but the father of the baby cries tears of sorrow and the mother groans. Not only are these children not wanted but they have to do unsanitary things and usually do not make it to adulthood. “My mother groand! my father wept. Into the dangerous world I leapt: Helpless, naked, piping loud; Like a fiend hid in a cloud.( Lines 1-4)” In this quote from Infant sorrow it talks about how the parents weep and moan and the baby is leaping into the world full of fear. “A little black thing among the snow, Crying "weep! 'weep!" in notes of woe! "Where are thy father and mother? say?"(Lines 1-3)” In this quote the child cries out for his parents that are both gone which leaves him at the orphanage. All together these stories have had a great outcome and they have shown very detailed messages. THey all tie together in a way because they all have to do with the yin-yang symbol. The lamb and They tyger are one yin-yang symbol and chimney sweeper and infant sorrow is another. The lamb and the tyger because the lamb is very gentle and nice, but the tyger is very outgoing and hard-headed. In chimney sweeper and infant sorrow, chimney sweeper does not care about th struggles that the children go through and in infant sorrow the parents are worried about all the troubles their child will have throughout her life.