A Romantic as he was‚ William Blake created his rather simple songs as an opposition to the poetry the eighteenth-century poets tried to impose‚ the so called ornated word‚poetry of beautiful words saying very little. Songs of Innocence and Experience are about the "two contrary states of the human soul" as Blake put it. To confirm this he wrote some of the poems of Innocence with their pairs in Experience. Such a pair is "The Lamb" from Innocence and "The Tyger" from Experience. "The Lamb" consists
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"Why wilt thou turn away? "The starry floor‚ "The wat’ry shore‚ "Is giv’n thee till the break of day." The Chimney Sweeper (Innocence) 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. There’s little Tom Dacre‚ who cried when his head‚ That curl’d like a lamb’s back‚ was shav’d: so I said
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essay will cover three poets‚ (Blake‚ Keats and Shelley) and their own personal uses of imagination. Also‚ it will cover the comparisons in the use of imagination. Blake‚ a poet from the 1700-1800’s‚ used his imagination to draw his audience in‚ but leave them thinking afterwards. In the poems The Tyger and The Lamb‚ Blake connected the poems through questions. How could HE make something so innocent as well as the tiger? Why would HE create such a powerful animal? Blake used his imagination to connect
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fear‚ In every voice: in every ban‚ The mind-forg’d manacles I hear How the Chimney-sweepers cry Every black’ning Church appalls‚ And the hapless Soldiers sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls But most thro’ midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlots curse Blasts the new-born Infants tear And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse The poem London was written by the British poet and engraver William Blake. It has 4 quatrains with alternative lines rhyming. Written in iambic pentameter
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through the mist perpetually hindering his or her sight‚ one can see that those are merely depictions of happiness that the media gives and that many would find truer to life. We see a world of darkness and soot portrayed in the poem “The Chimney Sweeper” by William Blake through the eyes of indentured children longing to die. Then a world where the fulfillment of dreams is based upon material wealth‚ the Younger family strives to overcome their hardships as they search for happiness. As money has never
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London In London‚ William Blake portrays a very dark and abysmal picture of London. Throughout the whole poem‚ Blake never mentions a positive scene. The poem seems to deal with the lower class part of society‚ the part which lives in the poor neighborhoods. The first stanza begins with the speaker wandering around London. Throughout the poem‚ Blake repeats a word which he used in one line‚ in the next line. An example of this can be seen in the first two lines. He uses the word chartered in
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and Experience (The Lamb‚ The Tyger; The Ecchoing Green‚ The Garden of Love/London; The Nurse’s Song (I and E); Introduction (I and E); The Chimney sweeper (I and E)‚ etc) explores the value and limitations of two different perspectives of the world. The same situation or problem is seen through the eyes or perspective of Innocence first‚ then Experience. Blake stands outside Innocence and Experience‚ in a distanced position from which he recognises and attempts to correct the fallacies of both perspectives
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in this case‚ the uprooted). Mouse represents common folk who are often tyrannized by the high and the mighty. Foolproof Plans Can Go Awry “Songs of Innocence (1789) & Songs of Experience (1794)” - William Blake “Innocence & Experience” “two contrary states of the soul” In Songs‚ Blake opposes examples of innocence and experience from o Natural creation o History o
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Evolution of the Attitude toward Child Labor Henry Mayhew ’s "Watercress Girl" and William Blake ’s "The Chimney-Sweeper" both focus on the child labor that was prevalent during the Romantic and Victorian time periods. Throughout both of these time periods‚ poverty provided the fuel that burned the fire of child exploitation. Due to the differences in the two periods‚ the attitudes and perceptions concerning child labor had distinctive variations. These works provide a brief look at the evolution
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of many products. This revolution soon spread to the United States and throughout Western Europe. Even though the Industrial Revolution brought about positive advances through the invention of technology‚ communication‚ and transportation‚ William Blake also laments the harm it brought to humanity. Before the Industrial Revolution had begun‚ England’s economy was mainly based on the cotton industry. Workers would produce goods at
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