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    that ’well’ is a rather nebulous concept‚ it can be hard to place a judgement upon whether this statement is more often than not correct. Nevertheless‚ especially in the works of ’Volpone’ by Ben Jonson and ’Songs of Innocence and Experience’ by William Blake‚ power is very rarely‚ if not ever‚ depicted as being used responsibly and for the good of others. It is‚ however‚ almost always seen to be used to the advantage of the person who possesses it. This in itself could be seen as using power ’well’

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    Poetry Explication The Lamb and The Tyger When Reading William Blake’s poems form the song of innocence and song of experience readers get how both links to each other to create a greater meaning. The Lamb from the song of innocence shows the innocence of god in a person‚ while The Tyger shows the experience of a person. Paired together‚ William Blake’s poem The Lamb and The Tyger uses biblical symbolism and diction to illustrate the perspective of religion both good and bad. The titles of

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    Corruption of authority can consume an individual or even an entire society. Both of William Blake’s poems‚ “The Chimney Sweeper‚” syntactically resemble one another through Blake’s employment of the ampersand and a fairly simplistic rhyme scheme; however‚ the tone in the first poem remains naïve and innocent as the speaker personally describes critical moments of coping with the atrocities of chimney-sweeping while the second poem employs a more cynical or accusatory tone as the point of view shifts

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    the multiple works of Blake‚ Wordsworth‚ and Shelley amongst others can be significantly altered dependant on perspective. Ideals of liberty‚ freedom‚ imprisonment‚ and enslavement were all prevalent topics of choice. Dependent on a person’s class‚ religion‚ or even attitude would find which them was favored. For example‚ William

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    authors used their work to communicate the suffering of the people living in the newly industrialized world‚ and described imagined worlds of beauty and perfection as a form of escape from the harshness that surrounded them. One such artist was William Wordsworth. In his poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” Wordsworth uses nature as a form of escapism from the Industrial Revolution. He describes the beauty of a multitude of daffodils and the happiness it brought him. “And then my heart with pleasure

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    interpretation in The Chimney Sweeper is that the speaker was sold at a young age by his father‚ to work as a chimney sweeper. Also‚ Tom Dacre dreamed of “thousands of sweepers‚ Dick‚ Joe‚ Ned‚ and Jack‚ were all of them lock’d up in coffins of black” (Blake‚ 1789/2007). “Though his [the speaker] few years seniority have given him a protective sense of responsibility‚ they have robbed him of little of his innocence” (Harrison‚ 1978). The speaker retells Tom’s dreams sincerely and reports on certain lines

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    A view on The Proverbs of Hell William Blake wrote the “Proverbs of Hell‚” between 1790 and 1793 as a part of the poem “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.” Blake was almost unknown as an engraver by trade‚ and even less known as a poet‚ which resulted in his poverty. His intentions of writing the “Proverbs of Hell” was to be a shock to those who read it in an attempt to shake their views on what was thought to be right and wrong (Panananen). Blake desired for people to think for themselves and shake

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    solutions to upcoming problems‚ not the least social ones – of which there were to be plenty in the growing urban areas‚ as Industrialism progressed. Romanticism in literature was asserting itself towards the end of the century‚ and someone like William Blake‚ for instance‚ in his collection of poems‚ Songs of Innocence and of Experience‚ strongly questioned the state of affairs where individuals were fed into the ugly mouths of industrial society – like innocent lambs crammed into the gaping jaws of

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    Shane Martin Mrs. Byrne British Literature Honors 21 March 2013 The Garden of Love Analysis Paper Romantic poet William Blake’s The Garden of Love is one of the twenty six poems included in his Songs of Experience collection. The poem tells of William Blake’s visit to the Garden of Love‚ a place where he spent most of his childhood. Much to his dismay‚ all that is left of the once-beautiful garden is a church‚ along with a graveyard where the beautiful flowers once were. The poem criticizes

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    Timothy Huebner 3rd Period IB English A1 HL COMPARE AND CONTRAST WILLIAM BLAKE AND JEAN RHYS ESSAY William Blake‚ with his Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience‚ and Jean Rhys‚ in Wide Sargasso Sea‚ utilize extensive symbolism and imagery in their respective works. They use imagery related to nature to symbolize Heaven/Hell or good/evil. They also use this imagery to emphasize the morals of their literary works and indicate‚ in the case of Wide Sargasso Sea‚ how the current events would

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