Category: William Blake

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 Enlightenment and it is a new era, marked by incredible development…

Introduction to Blakes Diverse Perspectives 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. Blakes visions compare to no other poets being that he has come from a lower-class family, his personal spiritual…

William Blakes paradoxical poem Auguries of Innocence is described as prophetic (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…

Blakes biggest fear is the city or industry engulfing everything. Most of his poetry revolves around politics, philosophy and religion. Blakes 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;…

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…

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 the Lamb and the Tyger that are riddled with religious connotations. In Blakes poem the Lamb the speaker answers…

Thesis Statement: In combining irony, symbols, rhythm, and disturbingly dramatic imagery, William Blake’s The Chimney Sweeper criticizes society’s indifference toward social injustice. According to (https:// www.goodreads.com), this 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…

I will be diving deeper behind the words in the poem ‘Chimney Sweeper’. The power of poetry lies between words, as it makes us realise and appreciate the world around us (Osborne, 2016). Chimney Sweeper, written in 1974 by William Blake, a biblical poet and painter who aimed to change social norms and status quos,…

In what way has a particular aspect, theme or text of Blakes 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;…