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16 Cards in this Set
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When did William Blake publish Songs Of Innocence and Experience? |
1794 |
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William Blake's lifespan |
1757-1827 (first wave Romantic) |
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How long did it take to write Songs of Innocence and Experience? |
35 years |
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How many working prostitutes in London at Blake's time? |
50 000 working prostitutes |
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Joel 1:4 |
What the cankerworm has left the caterpillar has eaten |
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"Which way I fly is hell?" |
Satan from John Milton's Paradise Lost |
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Form of London |
Ballad |
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What is The sick Rose's Meter? |
Anapestic feet |
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"Spiritual predestination, more abominable than Calvin's"- Blake |
Break with Swedenborg |
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If anyone causes someone to sin it is better if a millstone be tied round his neck |
Luke 17 |
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Meter in Songs of Experience Holy Thursday |
Inconsistent- generally iambic tetrametre |
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Metre in The Tyger |
Footless trochaic tetrametre- incomplete- starting with stressed syllable. |
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What is The Tyger contrasted with? |
The lamb. Answered questions in comparison to Tyger with unanswered |
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"What hand dare seize the fire?" |
Icarus myth. Neo classical. Ambition and industry. Chaotic mix of myths and Bible. Evil and good |
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Advent of technology |
Metallurgy |
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"Man is born free but everywhere he is in Chains" |
Jean Jaques Rousseau the social contract |
