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Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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Blake
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blakean story of the fall and redemption; against passivity and tries to rouse readers to action. oppositions are key to the existence of humanity. orthodoxy has broken the natural oppositions and elevated good over evil, etc. Blake believes in equality of opposites; must exist for man to prosper. Apocalypse is sexual fulfillment
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Songs of Experience; Intro
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Blake
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voice of the Bard (inspiration from prophets)
2nd stanza has the them of "fall and redemption" - the starry pole, / and fallen, fallen light renew 3rd 4th - bard urges earth to regain itself; renew |
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Earth's Answer
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Blake
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held down by jealousy, orthodoxy. represses sex; sexual pleasure is forced to the night (plower plowing by night? sower sow by night? NO)
fall is into sexual repression |
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Pretty Rose Tree
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Blake
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3 characters - narrator, mistress, wife
turns away opportunity but is punished for it anyways rose witholds her own pleasures |
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Sick Rose
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Blake
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form of corruption of human sexuality - rape poem. "found out thy bed / of crimson joy"
desire is now destructive; male and female are both to blame |
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Sunflower
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Blake
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sun-flower follows the movements of the sun; it grows upward towards heaven to escape the lost world of experience.
fascinated with eternity; celebrates passage of time but weary of waiting woman is the flower; longs for other pious, religious worlds youth, virgin are not in heaven. Live a life unfulfilled/unhappy if you do suppress your desires. Woman, youth, and virgin all strive to be in same place - heaven |
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London
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Blake
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same outcome as a result of weakness of man as shown through 4 various images - Social criticism (social institutions with a victim "V", institutions "I")
V1. chimney sweeper - children are abused; no labor laws; work in horrific conditions I1. church - employed children to do labor, hypocritical, exploitative V2. soldiers - forced into service; blood runs down the palace walls I2. palace/gov't/king - begin wars and allow others to shed blood for their actions; throw life away but dont' have to face the throes of battle V3. I3. marriage - deathly image of hearse; baby has STDs from the harlot's sexual promiscuity beds (spec. marriage beds) are places of sexual activity and of birth / place or origin of life marriage channels sexual desire; creates a black market of sexuality, and Blake argues that marriage creates prostitution. |
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Human Abstract
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Blake
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attacks hypocritical christian values / virtue
tree grows through poisonous / negative nurturing - tree talks about the fall of eden. fall is a mental event, corruption of the human consciousness Pity, mercy, fear, cruelty, humility, mystery, deceit, |
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Tyger
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Blake
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symmetrical design of poem; "could frame thy fearful symmetry" --> "dare frame they fearful symmetry?"
tyger is created by darkness; submission by light. seems like an inanimate object; **what was response to creator after seeing the fall of creation? -- why does evil exist? why would God create it himself? -- how can we have lamb and tiger from the same place? OPPOSITES; contraries confirm each other |
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Clod & Pebble
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Blake
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love seeking out others to please says the clod of clay; stream says that love only seeks to please itself
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Songs of Innocence: Lamb
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Blake
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originally conceived as a children's book; attempts to imitate the diction of a child
passes along information in his excitement; very little distinction between animality and humanity; lambs wool as clothing useful paradigm for blakes innocence; jesus as child, lamb throughout bible Holistic unity with god, spirituality, humanity |
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Book of Thel
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Blake
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Visions of Daughters of Albion
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Blake
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Pride and Prejudice
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Austen
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The Ruined Cottage
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Wordsworth
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Two April Mornings
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Wordsworth
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Tintern Abbey
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Wordsworth
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Ode: Intimations of Immortality
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Wordsworth
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The Prelude
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Wordsworth
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Frost at Midnight
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Coleridge
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Kubla Khan
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Coleridge
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Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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Coleridge
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Christabel
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Coleridge
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The Garden of Love
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Blake
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garden no longer flowers; chapel built in the midst of field; graves were there. no life
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