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Chapter I
The Problem

A. INTRODUCTION

Having a term paper as a requirement for the graduating students is important. It may be difficult for the students since it is their first time to make this requirement but it is fun to do this, since this is one of knowing the author and the same time develop the researcher’s skill in analyzing and interpreting ideas. In the writing this term paper the researchers gain information and get familiar to the works and life story of the two authors.

This term paper focuses the comparative study of William Blake and Walt Whitman. The researchers gather information through research and analyze the data to answer the question stated in the problem.

B. BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM BLAKE¹

William Blake was an English poet, engraver, and a painter. A boldly imaginative rebel in both his through and art, he combined poetic and pictorial genius to explore life.

YOUTH

William Blake was born in London, England, on November 28, 1757, the second son of a men’s clothing merchant. From his earliest year he saw vision. He would see trees full of angels on similar sights, if this were not true mystical visions; they were the results of the artistic intense spiritual understanding of the world. From his early teens Blake wrote poems, often setting them to melodies of his own composition. At the age of ten, Blake started at the well-known Park’s DrawingSchool, at age of fourteen; he began a seven year apprenticeship to an engraver. It was as an engraver that Blake earned his living for the rest of his life. After he was twenty-one, Blake studied for a time at The Royal Academy of Arts, but he was unhappy with the instruction and left. In August 1782, Blake married Catherine Boucher. He was taught her to read and to write, and she later became a valued assistant. His sweet sha of delight, as Blake, called Catherine as a devoted and loving wife.

EARLY WORKS

When he was twenty-six he



Bibliography: http://www.poetry.about.com/od/poems/1/ blWhitmandirge.htm http:// www. Poemhunter.com/poem/my-spectre-around-me-night-and-day http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/angel-the/ http://www.poemhunter.com/in-midnight-sleep/ DEDICATION: First and foremost, I would like to give our sincere thanks and praise to our almighty father with his deniable power and immeasurable love not wise for us but for the whole human race. To our beloved parents with there continuously support and understanding especially in times that we almost forgot our responsibility as a son. Thank you so much with your love and compassion we can be a fulfilled person someday. To Our teachers, our second parents with their administrable courage and patience, to them we also offer this activity. Without their thorough teaching and lessons we won’t be here in this year level. To our classmates and friends we also dedicate this requirement. Thank you so much, not just for being of there always and helping us in making this requirement but also you accepted us as a friend. At first we thought that you were hostile.

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