William Blake Accomplishments

William Blake was born on November 28th, 1757 in Soho, London. William's poems reflect the life and class struggle of himself. His biography explains how his life is conjured in his style of poetry through historical, biographical, religious, and romantic ways; in particular, the Chimney Sweeper. He was born in a time where transition was a hardship to battle his way through. A large part of his inspiration, according to the bibliography, was when he began to see the increasing injustice in the world. The injustice is present in the poem when William Blake states, “When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue, Could scarcely cry " 'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!", So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep (The Chimney Sweeper).” The society William grew up in played a large part in how he wrote the Chimney Sweeper, Poetical Sketches, Visions of the Daughters of Albion and many more. He grew up during the revolution; resulting in him observing the British war and the downfall of London. He began to loath the world when the destruction of
William was considered a large part of the romantic era, and the “pre-romantic” era. His works , although romantic and personal, are rather hard to decipher. His romantic values are evident in his poem, the Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Blake shows a romantic tendency in this poem by disregarding the literary rules of a genre. Blake states in the Marriage of Heaven and Hell that, “Man has no Body distinct from his Soul.” He is stating that the soul is more important than the body, and he uses the Devil as a good guy (presented as a rebel, and who is loved by all) to take a conventional rule and reverse it onto the audience. In the novel ,Prometheus Rising, the author states, “Blake proceeded the other Romantics, and never identified himself with them.” Blake takes a romantic stance, and goes beyond