The Industrial Revolution and the Romantic Spirit The Industrial Revolution refers to a series of significant shifts in traditional practices of agriculture‚ manufacturing‚ and transportation‚ as well as the development of new mechanical technologies that took place between the late 18th and 19th centuries in much of the Western world. During this time‚ the United Kingdom‚ as well as the rest of Europe and the United States soon after‚ underwent drastic socio-economic and cultural changes during
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Blake ’s dialectic is to be found everywhere in the Songs of Innocence and Experience - night and day‚ winter and spring‚ wilderness and Eden‚ etc. As Mitchell writes (1989:46)‚ ‘dialogue and dialectic of contraries constitute the master code of Blake ’s text’. Bass (1970:209) adds‚ ‘The total effect of Innocence and Experience is one of balanced opposites‚ each fulfilling and completing the other’. Moreover‚ according to John Beer‚ the ‘contrary states’ of the human soul are dialectic in themselves
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textiles‚ home industries‚ and as newsboys‚ messengers‚ bootblacks‚ peddlers etc. Child Labour then was unchecked and unbounded. History of child labour is well versed in some of the poems scripted in the turbulent 19th century. "The Chimney Sweeper" by William Blake‚ is a poem published in Songs of Innocence in 1789‚ wherein the poet talks about the harsh nature of child
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Warnings: If the occupier gives someone a fair warning then the occupier cannot be sued if his warning is ignored. Look at this case for instance‚ Roles V Nathan (1963)‚ a chimney sweeper turnt up at a mans house and was told not to sweep his chimney as there was a leakage‚ but he ignored the warnings and the sweeper was poisoned and died. Independent Contractors: The law says that where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger due to the faulty executions of any work of constructions‚ maintance
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high demand for many types of jobs including mining‚ factory work‚ street sweepers‚ clothing and hat makers‚ chimney sweeps‚ farming‚ textile mills‚ servants‚ and sadly‚ prostitution. As you may have already noticed‚ the British had very little regard for children. Victorian Child Labor was prevalent in the Victorian Era. Here is a list of several types of jobs that children did. List: Coal mines Laundry for pay Chimney Sweep Sweated Trades Factory Worker Matchmaking Scare the birds from
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Hlaing “According to William Blake‚ “London” the Industrial Revolution had changed the city for worse” (Bloom‚ Harold). The city is fallen on great depression. He uses dark portrait of a London to reveal the theme of people misery and hard times. He paints a misery of people and darkness of city life and human suffering derived from the Industrial Revolution. The language of the poem on how the poem was written and emotion of people are inevitable in this poem. William Blake wrote the poem in such a
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2012 H I G H E R S C H O O L C E R T I F I C AT E E X A M I N AT I O N English (Standard) Paper 2 — Modules Total marks – 60 Section I General Instructions • Reading time – 5 minutes • Working time – 2 hours • Write using black or blue pen Black pen is preferred Pages 2–4 20 marks • Attempt either Question 1 or Question 2 • Allow about 40 minutes for this section Section II Pages 5–8 20 marks • Attempt ONE question from Questions 3–7 • Allow about 40 minutes for
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previously withheld society from free expression. It is the limitless boundaries of the imagination that have taken hold of literature‚ in contrast to realism of previous ages‚ as present throughout the Romantic and Victorian age. Writers such as William Blake‚ William Wordsworth‚ Samuel Coleridge‚ Lord Byron‚ Percy Bysshe Shelley‚ and John Keats began this new age of a new style of writing called Romanticism which lit the fuse to an explosion of imagination and witty literature. At the beginning of the
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AP Literature Poetry Essay Prompts (1970–2011) 1970 Poem: “Elegy for Jane” (Theodore Roethke) Prompt: Write an essay in which you describe the speaker’s attitude toward his former student‚ Jane. 1971 Poem: “The Unknown Citizen” (W.H. Auden) Prompt: In a brief essay‚ identify at least two of the implications implicit in the society reflected in the poem. Support your statements by specific references to the poem. 1972 NO POEM 1973 (exam not available) 1974 Poem: “I wonder whether one expects
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that too. Blake- the poet that lived a life that was “unromantic” in the poetic sense of the word b/c he lived a quiet uneventful life; organized Innocence which was a state where sense of divinity of humanity-coexist with oppressions and injustice; during his life his work received little attention and the attention it did was negative * Works * Songs of Innocence- innocence in which everyone is born; childlike tone; the lamb symbolizes Jesus * Chimney Sweeper- Darkside; Innocence
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