Essays on William Blake

Dreams have always inspired artists to produce real visual images. Paintings in pre-historic walls are evidence that human beings have been representing their dreams since time immemorial. Artists in all generations since man’s civilization have been using dreams as inspiration for their works (Barrett 7). Artists such William Blake, Salvador Dali and Edward Burne-Jones, are among those painters that have used dreams as their inspiration. William Blake Jacob’s ladder (1800) William Blake was an English painter, poet, and printmaker in the Romantic Age. Blake was talented in expressiveness and creativity. Most of his works lack the influence ...

Introduction

William Blake is a great poet from England who was born November 28, 1757, and died August 12, 1927 (Bentley, 2016). He wrote Songs of Innocence and Songs from Experience (Poetry Foundation, 2016). In this work, William Blake speaks of two animals in opposite ways. The purpose of this paper is to write of the meaning of the two poems and compare each of the poems. The question: What are the likenesses and differences in the poems “The Lamb”, and “The Tyger” that make one poem a poem of innocence and the other poem a poem of experience? Will ...

William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience were written in the 18th century. Blake used parallel versions of his poems to construct an ideal form of human existence which he later compared against the contemporary society. His works, which were sometimes considered deeply spiritual, caused some of his critics to dismiss him as a Lunatic and his work as the rantings of a lunatic. Blake was also an artist and his images accompanied most of his poems. Blake used parallel poems to respond to the decay in the human values in the society (Vines 116). Many ...

The paper emphasizes the police as formal law enforcement agency destined to guard the rights of people in the society and involvement of local governments in policing. The minorities and women’s inclusion in the police department has proved improvement in policing over the time. Prime responsibilities of police in local government as well as in the state and the federal government are further explained in the essay. Social control is defined as the concept of people behaving and reacting to the troublesome individual. Few responsibilities such as inform to police if some unusual thing occurs in the neighborhood, ...

Introduction

The advertising industry plays an important role in conveying messages to different societies. While advertising is referred to as an “archetypal American service industry” (Faulconbridge et al, 49), it's now become an important element in any society. For instance, many organizations around the world have been using advertisement to advance their cause. An example of which are women’s organization that aims to achieve equality for women from all over the world, one advertisement is exemplified in Image 1 which can seen at the end of this paper. There are many public campaigns about the social issue of women’ ...

Every literary epoch has its own features. However, they have some common and different characteristics. Romanticism and Beat Generation are two different generations and the brightest representatives are William Blake and Jack Kerouac. It is important to look at both literary directions in order to understand the authors who belonged to these movements. Romanticism was an artistic development that cleared through practically every nation of Europe, the United States, and Latin America that kept going from around 1750 to 1870. Nonetheless, the Romantic Movement did not achieve France until the1820's. Sentimentalism's crucial soul was one of rebellion against a ...

William Blake’s poem “The Little Black Boy” is about a young boy who is born uneducated, black, and poor. The boy talks about his life, and how he will never be equal to the white children until he dies. His mother tells him to rely on his faith to God and one day the rest of the world will see him for his special qualities, even if it comes after he is dead. He is well aware of the racist circumstances of the world and the fact that because he is black he will never be given a ...

Introduction

William Blake is one of the most significant poets of the Romanticism movement of the late 18th and early 19th Century in Europe. His work encapsulates three major styles of artist, visionary, and mystic. His work continues to intrigue and fascinate readers since. Blake was born on 28th November 1957 and died seventy years, later on, 12th August 1827. He lived largely in London except for the three years between 1800 and 1803, when he lived in Bognor, Sussex. Most of Blake’s poems can be found in two collections, Songs of Innocence (1789), and Songs of Experience (1794). ...

The romantic era has a significant place in literary history. Running its course from 1780 to 1850, novelists and poets alike flocked to this genre as a form of expression. It was a bold and daring way to define one’s self. Conflicting with the current trend of enlightenment, it went beyond the single-minded philosophy enlightenment had adopted, allowing novelists and poets to transcend everything they and their readers believed writing and reading to be. Human nature was unvarying, and free in its emotion. The church had long since attempted to block this humanity from the world, but romanticism attempted to join ...

There are two ways that knowledge is gained by an individual; one is through outside knowledge which is acquired by education, and by self-knowledge which is gained through experience. In all instances, complete understanding is achieved when the two aspects of outside and self-knowledge interact in a person’s intellectual and emotional levels, whereby these aspects either complement one another or cause tensions that enhance deeper thought processes. Hence, a set knowledge that may be interpreted or gained in two ways unite to form the bigger picture, so to speak, and allow an individual to form his or her own insight ...

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The main social issues being discussed in the poems “The Chimney Sweeper" by William Blake, “Imagine the Angels of Bread” by Martin Espada and “If I Were Paul” by Mark Jarman were distinct from each other. For example, “The Chimney Sweeper” discusses about child labor. “Imagine the Angels of Bread” discusses about especially unfair work conditions. “If I Were Paul” on the other hand, takes into account the biblical story of Saul of Tarsus and his journey to becoming the apostle Paul. One thing that ...

William Blake was a famous English poet and painter largely unrecognized during his lifetime, unfortunately. However, as time went by, the society recognized the value of Blake’s writings. Today, William Blake is known as a substantial figure in the history of poetry and arts of the Romantic Age. His poetry is characterized by contemporaries as prophetic and insightful (Clark and Whittaker 91). The ideas Blake presented in his poems were far beyond the understanding of his contemporaries; the poet was ahead of his time. William Blake lived his life as a foreteller contributing to cultural diversity of England in particular and ...

The Tyger and The Lamb found in the songs of experience and songs of innocence respectively are two notable poems by William Blake. The poems were inspired by the years he lived 1757-1827 which heralded the inception of the Romantic movement in the western civilization. The Romantic movement was founded on human expressiveness and spirituality with enhanced focus on nature. The society then had a profound impact on Blake’s perception and convictions regarding various issues he tackled in his poems. His two works, The Lamb, and The Tyger are much centered on the poet’s expression regarding religion with ...

Art Humanities

Iconography is the act of producing religious images that are called icons. It studies the description, identification and also the interpretation of image contents. Iconography is also used in different fields other than the art humanities such as the media studies and also the semiotics field. Iconography also acts as a depiction of a particular subject depending on image contents. Humans communicated using iconography as back as one hundred thousand years ago. An example is that of the Chinese characters and also the Egyptian hieroglyphs. Iconography has been practiced for centuries in the religion of Christianity. Great artists have transmitted the ...

In the world of art -- especially painting -- the name Salvador Dali is synonymous with surrealism. Dali painted dreams on canvas that gave birth to new vistas -- landscapes of terror and amusement where time stood at a standstill, and viewers are lured into the fantastic, more-than-real world that Dali forged from his daily existence. Dali stood at the vanguard of the Surrealist movement, and his paintings now fetch upwards of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Born on May 11, 1904, in Figueres, Spain, Dali exhibited artistic talent -- and notable eccentricities -- from an early age. Dali ...

Abstract

William Blake, the famous English romantic lyrical poet, wrote this musical poem, “ The Lamb”, which was published in his book “Songs of Innocence and Experience.” It is simple in style but a metaphorical poem with allusions to the Bible.

Introduction William Blake, a romantic poet of the late 18th century, published the poem “ The Lamb” in his poetic collection called the “Songs of Innocence and Experience (Blake, 1789)⁠.” There is an air of innocence in the poem as the speaker asks a little lamb about its creator. This short poem is notable because of its lyrical style and its musical intonation. ...

The aim of this essay is to present you with a literary analysis of the poem ‘London’ which is written by William Blake (1757-1827). The poem was written in 1792 and was included in the combined edition titled ‘Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience’ which was edited in 1794. This is a poem which seems classical in value since it depicts the society of the capital of England in an era which seems to bear numerous traits and characteristics in common with nowadays society. The end of the 18th century was a period marked by the increasingly worrying gap between ...

Primary literary techniques of diction, imagery and figurative language are employed by only good poets in their work or poems. Nevertheless, mainly great poets are capable of employing these literal tools to convey an experience or understanding to the reader. William Blake, Emily Dickson and Robert Frost are all great poets of their time. Thus, it is important to note that they all embrace literal devices in their own way. In Emily Dickson’s “I felt a funeral, in my Brain”, the speaker explains in details how she lost her mind. Also, she utilizes various events in making sure that ...

The aim of this essay is to present you with a literary analysis of the poem ‘London’ which is written by William Blake (1757-1827). The poem was written in 1792 and was included in the combined edition titled ‘Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience’ which was edited in 1794. This is a poem which seems classical in value since it depicts the society of the capital of England in an era which seems to bear numerous traits and characteristics in common with nowadays society. The end of the 18th century was a period marked by the increasingly worrying gap between ...

At first glance, William Blake’s selection of poetry in Songs of Innocence and Experience seems to be vastly different than the satirical masterpiece that is Voltaire’s Candide. However, despite being very different works of literature, both of the pieces were created in the same time period, and in the same political and international climate (Blake and Lincoln). Both of the literary works are concerned with similar themes, and with the changing political and social climate in western Europe during the mid- to late-eighteenth century. The theme of innocence and the pain of acquiring knowledge is a common thread ...

The Novel “Hard Times” by Charles Dickens is a story that is in a 19th century setting about the industrial town of Coketown which is in England. The ideologies presented by Dickens presents were not only relevant to the society at the time, but they can also be traced in the society today. The ideologies reflect the realities that are at play in societies and families such as utilitarianism, the ideological state apparatus (ISA), social class, and morality just to mention a few. Thomas Gradgrind and Josiah Bounderby are followers of utilitarianism. This is true in the sense that they believe ...

Literature Review

Abstract This literature review paper focusses on the subject of the role of dreams and the relationship between those dreams and hope. For this purpose three readings of different genres have been selected, to see what and how the three writers have expressed their dreams. The three pieces of literature under study are, a poem called ‘The Chimney Sweeper’ by William Blake, Martin Luther’s speech ‘I have a dream’ and the speech by Abraham Lincoln, popularly known as the ‘Gettysburg Address’. ‘The Chimney Sweeper’ by William Blake addresses the issue of child labor and the social oppression that a ...

Shakespeare, Hughes, and Blake to

Evoke Strong Feelings in Their Readers

Good poetry should tantalize the senses; the reader should be able to feel, see, and taste as the poet does. In their poems, the following poets, Shakespeare, Hughes, and Blake write tributes to someone dear and use figurative language to bring their poems to life and hold their readers in the same realm as they when they penned their poems.

“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day,?” is how Shakespeare begins sonnet eighteen, with a simile. Clearly Shakespeare is addressing someone special, someone he really cares about and admire. Shakespeare uses a question ...

1. In William Blake's "Songs of Innocence and of Experience," Blake attempts to dig into the very nature of existence and perception; part of the primary message of the works is that childhood is an innocent time that should be protected, but it is capable of being corrupted by the structures and rules of the adult world. As we get older and move through life, getting more experiences, we lose our innocence and start to become adults because of what the government, the church and the rich do to us.

In "The Lamb," we learn about how we ...

Analysis of William Blake’s The Tyger

William Blake wrote this wonderful lyric poem called The Tyger in 1794. The poem has six quatrains of two couplets each. In this poem the poet addresses the tiger and is in complete awe of the way it must have been created by the Creator. The use of anaphora (repetition of the question what?) brings out the poet’s awe and bewilderment at the tiger’s creation more effectively, which is the central theme of the poem. He just can’t imagine how the blacksmith or Creator could create the tiger’s ‘fearful symmetry’ (l.4). Blake has vividly ...

I. INTRODUCTION:

Thesis: Although the theme is untraditional for Romantic Poetry, the devices that Blake uses are in line with the style.

II. BODY PARAGRAPH 1:

Opening Sentence: It is generally well-known that Blake had a complex and problematic relationship with the Church of England.

Detail 1: this is at the heart of poem Detail 2: garden has changed as it now has a chapel in it III. BODY PARAGRAPH II: Transition/Opening Sentence: Within this poem, there is an obvious feeling of both passing experience and that over a long period of time.

Detail 1: Romantic poetry is often ...

The movie “Dead Man” makes many references to the poetry of William Blake. In fact, it goes far beyond than mere quoting of his poems. Characters, themes and symbols are based of William Blake’s works. “Dead Man” is a story about the journey of a young man to the unfamiliar terrain. This is both spiritual and physical journey. The main character’s name, played by Johnny Depp, is William Blake. The aim of his journey is the extreme western boundaries of the American borders. William Blake is not a poet, but a broke accountant from Cleveland. One of the characters, Nobody ( ...

William Blake’s poems, “The Tyger” and “The Lamb” are directly related to each other in exploring the poet’s theme of good and evil and the notion of a god that can create creatures which are at such different ends of the spectrum. The two poems share elements in common such as structure, rhyme, theme and the use of literary devices. However, within these devices, such as imagery, the poems vary, as they do in terms of tone. The two poems are integral to one another as they make up two parts of an essential system, as the animals ...