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    English Assignment Year 10 Name: Brandon Clark William Blake was born in London on November 28‚ 1757‚ Blake passed away on 12 August 1827. James hes father‚ a hosier‚ and Catherine Blake hes mother. Two of his six siblings died in infancy. From early childhood‚ Blake spoke of having visions at four he saw God "put his head to the window"; around age nine‚ while walking through the countryside‚ he saw a tree filled with angels. Although his parents tried to discourage him from "lying‚" they

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    The Human Soul In  William Blake’s Songs Of Innocence And Experience Tembong Denis Fonge         Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience generally subscribe to the main stream appreciation that they present the reader with two states of the human condition - the pastoral‚ pure and natural world of lambs and blossoms on the one hand‚ and the world of experience characterized by exploitation‚ cruelty‚ conflict and hypocritical humility on the other hand. However‚ Blake’s songs communicate experiences

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    For A Revolution Auguries of Innocence by William Blake was published in 1863‚ assumed written in 1803. William Blake‚ a British poet from the Romanticism movement‚ wrote Auguries of Innocence full of paradox and mixed feelings. Blake used to have trouble with authority‚ and he expresses this need of freedom through his poem. This poem‚ thanks to its imagery‚ let the reader make his own interpretation of life and political views of the author. William Blake used the image of animals to reflect

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    Blakes 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 Blakes 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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    William Blake lived from 1757-1827. He based most of his works in the style of Romanticism. Much like William Wordsworth‚ Blake wrote from the heart‚ letting natural expression take over. Many of the writers of the Romantic period felt they had entered an imaginative climate‚ which some of them called "the Spirit Age." During this "Spirit Age‚" many authors felt that freedom and spontaneity were the key elements in poetry. Before this creative revolution‚ a poem was considered a classical work of

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    secret to the poem lies in its second line. The speaker is talking about the change in how he now sees his surroundings‚ not a change in the garden itself. The poem marks the psychological passage from childhood innocence to adult experience. There are strong elements of the passage from innocence to wisdom of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Just as the biting of the apple interpreted as a sexual awakening‚ so is the speakers ’joys and desires’ include the pleasures he is denied by the rules of morality

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    The Lamb and The Tyger written by William Blake there is a metaphor of God being the creator of all‚ good and evil‚ and details of each opposite created beings. The Lamb is in representation of Jesus and the Tyger‚ the Devil. In modern day high schools students can compare to both the lamb and the tyger within their personalities. Depending on the situation a student is placed in‚ either can come out. In The Lamb by William Blake the poem shows a strong metaphor of the ’little lamb’ representing

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    Reading Deeper (An Analysis of Blake’s Use of Archetypes) As English poets emerged in the eighteenth century‚ William Blake’s name became a topic of discussion. He was a well-known poet who had one eye on mystical visions and the other on the real social ills around him. The way he expressed his mystical vision side was through archetypes‚ plot patterns‚ character types‚ or ideas with emotional power and widespread appeal. These were sometimes viewed as ways to describe truths about humanity. “In

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    “The Tyger” by: William Blake. Summary I believe the tiger and the lamb are metaphors for characteristics of humanity. With the human race being superior to all other creatures‚ how is it that we have those that are preferred lamb like and others that are feared as much as the tiger? What was he/she thinking? Why did you make us capable of being so devastating and carnivorous? So I pretty much think that William Blake meant the tyger to be use tiger‚ else it would go for an animal. The

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    Chimney Sweeper"‚ William Blake displays the despondent urban life of a young chimney sweeper during the coming of the industrial revolution in order to emphasize the theme of innocence through Marxism and to inform people of the harsh working conditions during the times of child labor promoting political reform. William Blake was born in London on November 28‚ 1757‚ to James and Catherine Blake. From early childhood‚ Blake spoke of having visions. He learned to read and write at home. Blake expressed a

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