Blake William
William Blake wrote during the Romantic period which between 1785 - 1830. Some said that the Romantic period was the fairy tale way of writing through symbolism and allegory and also an age for individualism. Blake was little known as a poet during his lifetime. His reputation became established late in the 19th century. Blake's first book of poems was Poetical Sketches. Blake was said to write symbolist poetry in which things such as a cloud, a flower, or a mountain was presented as an object represent with significance beyond itself. In comparison to Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience there is a distinction between the imagined states of innocence and experience is stated as thus: world of innocence: unfallen world/ unified self/ integration with nature/ time in harmony with rhythm of human existence. world of experience: fallen world/ fragmented divided self/ alienation from nature/ time as destructive, in opposition of human desire (Feldman). This can be seen in "The Lamb," and "The Chimney Sweeper;" from Songs of Innocence and in Songs of Experience "The Tyger". Blake along with other poets explored visionary states of consciousness that are common among children but violate the standard categories o
Overall Blake's works were different, although the public did not recognize them as good poetry during the period in which he wrote. I thought he used great metaphors and comparisons in his works. Time as destructive in opposition of human desire is represented by "The Chimney Sweeper". The Lamb is a symbol of Christ and his pureness and innocence. " Blake experimented with partial rhymes and novel rhythms and employed bold figures of speech that at times approximate symbols. He attacked rationalism, authoritarianism, industrialization, and organized religion as destructive of creative and spiritual energies(Feldman). The speaker knows of death because both of his parents are already dead probably and he is just trying to make it in society by being a chimney sweeper. Doing research on the internet I discovered this. The speaker says, "he is meek & he is mild" (line 15), this represents the unfallen world. Time in harmony with rhythm of human existence is represented in "The Chimney Sweeper". " What he meant by this is often misinterpreted, on that note Blake said, "that which can be made Explicit to the Idiots is not worth my care". The Song of Innocence is almost full of brightness, cheer, and peace yet, the Songs of Experience is depicting a world worn and full of miserable human beings. Blake said that, " The Nature of my Work is Visionary or Imaginative. Wordsworth commented that, "there is no doubt that this poor man was mad, but there is something in his madness which interests me more than the sanity of the Lord Byron and Walter Scott. I found his work to be interesting and unusual.
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