Loss, death, grief, pain is an impactful subject for the romantics. Death and loss are not only of human beings but death can also be of the abstract notions. Grief and pain are also felt on the loss of any feeling, emotions or loss of imagination. Grief was different for the romantic poets. Coleridgeâs âDejection: An Odeâ is an autobiographical poem in which he laments over his loss of creative imagination. To him imagination was a natural gift which when...
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The Age of Enlightenment brought about the Industrial Revolution and societal changes which greatly influenced the discourses of the time. With the Age of Reason, otherwise known as the Enlightenment, there was a change into a focus on reason and progress led to the movement of people into built up cities, with common discourse ultimately favouring those within the capitalist and theological institutions of the time. Poets such as William Blake greatly despised this change, and are notably great writers...
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I believe that William Blake was a religious seeker and a fantastic artist whom was known for not only his literary work, but also his artistic skills. This can be best seen in his poems like âthe Lambâ and âthe Tygerâ that are riddled with religious connotations. In Blakeâs poem the Lamb the speaker answers his own question: âI know who made you.â If you have any sort of upbringing or are familiar with the Christian faith you know that...
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Blakeâs biggest fear is the city or industry engulfing everything. Most of his poetry revolves around politics, philosophy and religion. Blakeâs works show that terms like Innocence and Experience are antithetical terms and contain within themselves their own opposites. He unsettles established oppositions and makes us see the world in new, imaginative and liberated ways; innocence to experience, good to evil, God to devil, white to black, pure to impure, child to adult, nature to city and human to God....
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Why does poetry speak to us in a way that grasps our attention and makes us want to discover more? Edmund Spenserâs (1552-1599) âSonnet LXVIIâ (1595) offers an insight into a huntsman who is in the pursuit of a lover, William Blakeâs (1757-1827) âA Poison Treeâ (1794) teaches us of the underlining conflict between a friend and a foe and William Butler Yeatsâs (1865-1939) âLeda and the Swanâ (1923) acknowledges the cruel and harrowing depiction of rape between Leda and...
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Thesis Statement: In combining irony, symbols, rhythm, and disturbingly dramatic imagery, William Blake’s âThe Chimney Sweeperâ criticizes society’s indifference âtowardâ social injustice. According to (https:// âwww.goodreads.com), thisâ story is such a sad and disturbing poem about the abuse of little children who were forced to become sweeps by their parents in this era. Blake has described the misery that was faced by the children of London, whoâs poor and impoverished parents sold them for a small amount of money, to...
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William Blakeâs paradoxical poem âAuguries of Innocenceâ is described as âpropheticâ (Rix, 2005). Contemporarily, Blake was inspired by political and social revolutions such as the aftermath of the American Revolution as well as the French Revolution (1789-1803) and the British Industrial Revolution (1760-1840). The concept of modernity plays a significant role in the poem as it can be perceived as a social commentary on the social class divide that was increasing due to the rise of Capitalism in Nineteenth Century...
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The Industrial Revolution is regarded as one of the most significant historical events to initiate the Romantic movement of the 18th Century. In the literary and historical sense of the word Romanticism, it serves a purpose to label certain writers and thinkers of the later 18th and early 19th Century, who, however, did not at that time used that term to define themselves or their work. The Romantics, did not adhere to the modernised industrial practises in the fields of...
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For decades poems have been a wonderful piece of format in writing that partakes the nature of both speech and song that is nearly always rhythmical and are usually metaphorical to help express the idea of commons themes. To begin with both poems like âBallad Of Birminghamâ by Dudley Randall, and âThe Lambâ William Blake discuss the image of innocence. Randall discusses the child’s innocence to make the ultimate tragedy in end the poem to make it shocking and devastating...
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âA Poison Treeâ, written by William Blake and published in 1794, uses rhyming couplet form, symbolism and metaphors, and tone to convey message. The message of the poem is that humans âwaterâ their anger and let it grow, whereas the poem tries to teach us that this is unideal. The poem âThe Poison Treeâ is a rhyming couplet. This is used as rhyming couplet is a very basic style following AABB. This contrasts the complex human emotions that are portrayed...
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Ambiguity has been identified as one of the core aspects of poetry by many. Sir William Empson said of it: âThe machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetryâ. This paper is a contemplation about the extent Empsonâs utterance it truthful to. To understand significance of ambiguity it is important to be aware that it is only one of many points that were argued in the transition of literary criticism from simple unsubstantiated judgements to a proper respected...
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âElegy Written in a Country Church Yardâ by Thomas Gray, âA Poison Treeâ by William Blake and âA Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General’ by Jonathan Swift are all poems which address death from various perspectives and use various techniques to express this common theme. In this essay, I will investigate how these three poems treat their common theme, of death, in different ways to present a variety of the views that many may have of...
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In what way has a particular aspect, theme or text of Blakeâs been adopted by at least one later artist, writer, filmmaker or musician? William Blake was a complex character and his works are renowned for being near impossible to decipher, yet one fact we are sure of is that Blake was not a nationalist; he was a revolutionary. Yet when we look at the reception that âAnd Did Those Feet In Ancient TimesâŚâ received, a noticeable patriotic theme emerges,...
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Romanticism was the period of time which extended from 1750 to 1870. The major areas in the world vanguarding the movement were Europe, United States of America and Latin America. This movement was countering the rules of law formulas and was embracing imagination, subjectivity, freedom, expression and idealization of nature. During the Romanticism many writers were involved such as William Blake, William Wordsworth and others. They showed their support to the movement through illustrations and writings. Romanticism preferred the use...
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The year was 1757. A boy was born in Soho, London, into a working class family. But his destiny was to become a famous poet and painter. The times were exciting and romantic. The period between 17 and 19 century in Europe is called âEnlightenmentâ and it is a new era, marked by incredible development of science, technology and machinery. The Enlightenment was promoting ideas âcentered on the sovereignty of reason and the evidence of the senses as the primary...
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William Blake is one of the most uncommon and most hard to understand poets in the Romantic era. His outlooks about religion, art and society are often considered to be anachronistic. Blakeâs visions compare to no other poets being that he has come from a lower-class family, his personal spiritual beliefs and his interest for visual arts. However, Blake does have an interest and many opinions about important issues concerning the French Revolution, abolitionism, and visionary imagination. In Romantic literature,...
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I will be diving deeper behind the words in the poem ‘Chimney Sweeper’. The power of poetry lies between words, as it âmakes us realise and appreciate the world around usâ (Osborne, 2016). âChimney Sweeperâ, written in 1974 by William Blake, a biblical poet and painter who aimed to change social norms and status quos, composed a series of verses containing profound social commentaries. William Blake was extremely successful in conveying the themes; hope, death and woe. Additionally, it teaches...
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