With his individual visions William Blake created new symbols and myths in the British literature. The purpose of his poetry was to wake up our imagination and to present the reality between a heavenly place and a dark hell. In his Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience he manages to do this with simplicity. These two types of poetry were written in two different stages of his life‚ consequently there could be seen a move from his innocence towards experience. He was born on November 28‚ 1757
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Basic Approach: The Formalist Criticism VI. Writing about Poetry VII. Collection of Poems: (Provisional List) “Ulysses” Lord Alfred Tennyson “My Last Duchess” Robert Browning “I wandered lonely as a cloud” William Wordsworth “The Lamb” and “The Tyger” William Blake “A Poison Tree” William Blake “The Passionate Shepherd to his Love” Christopher Marlowe; and “ The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” Sir Walter Raleigh “Dover Beach” Matthew Arnold; and “The Dover Bitch; A Criticism of Life” “Ozymandias”
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Lyrical Ballads William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge The second generation George Gordon Byron: Childe Harold´s Pilgrimage Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ode to the West Wind John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale Other romantic poets • William Blake: The Tyger • Robert Burns Historical novel Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe - Wilfred of Ivanhoe - Richard I - Locksley (Robin Hood) - Lady Rowena Gothic novel Mary Shelley: Frankenstein Women writers of 19th century • Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice • Charlotte
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the horrific events. Blake’s work is a compilation of a number of ‘songs’. Although each can stand as an independent poem many from Songs of Innocence have a pair in Songs of Experience such as “Infant Joy” – “Infant Sorrow”‚ “The Lamb” – “The Tyger” and “The Ecchoing Green” – “The Earth’s Answer.” Taking “Infant Joy‚” from Songs of Innocence‚ it is told from the perspective of a baby “but two days old.” The baby is perceived as happy and joyous through lines such as “joy is my name/Sweet joy
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This is shown when they go into Dick’s room to find the rifle. They are static because they didn’t change through the story. They are important to the story because they help narrate the story and help explain the meaning similarities between the Tyger poem and Dick. Point of View: This story is told in the POV of first-person narrative‚ Spangler‚ 25 years ago. By telling this story in first-person‚ the reader experiences the fear each character feels when Dick is on his murdering rampage
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“Near the coast is generally sandy” (Doc B). Sand soil can create a struggle for settlers that were growing crops. The settlers would have to find new methods and ways to grow these crops. “Endless numbers of Panthers‚ Tygers‚ Wolves‚ and other Beasts of Prey.” (Doc C). there were many beasts of prey located in Carolina creating a threat to the settlers and their livestock. These threats and resources created problems for settlers in Charles Town. A huge problem in settling
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Settling in Charles Town There were many drawbacks that settlers had to face while settling in Charles Town. Settling is when you live somewhere permanent that you believe will be prosperous. When settlers set out to settle in Charles Town‚ Lord Ashley Anthony Cooper worked with these settlers to help face obstacles. Charles Town was founded at Albemarle Point on the Ashley River in 1670 by the English‚ and the name “Charles Town” honored Charles II‚ the King of England. Spanish explorers had first
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Blake’s optics in demeanor of cathedral’s codified religion and his mystification of God and religion. “I am in God’s presence night and day And he never turns his face away.” William Blake I am perplexed by the lines as if it has some magnetic gusto to realize belief and his spiritual world. We can easily figure out William Blake ’s artistic accomplishment in scrutiny of the spiritual world of human experience which is also the cardinal theme as
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simply‚ Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience juxtapose the innocent pastoral world of childhood against an adult world of corruption and repression. The collection as a whole‚ by means of paired poems in Innocence 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
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I Had a Job I liked. Once. Guy Vanderhaegh takes us back a few decades in the retelling of a court case in small town‚ Saskatchewan in the play‚ “I Had a Job I liked. Once.” Using elements of style‚ staging and developing characters throughout the play Vanderhaegh portrays to the audience the theme of the biases and prejudices that come with living in a small town. The story is set in small town Saskatchewan in a police station office‚ on the night of August of 1957. Corporal Heasman has brought
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