William Blake Human Experience

For example, William Blake sought to understand God through spirit and imagination, in contrast to the typical theological view of God 'as an old man', a rational being who controlled the order of things. Blake wanted to break this unyielding portrayal of God. Blake was religious and interested in divine inspiration. In his epic poems he writes about visions of heaven and hell. Coleridge once suggested of Blake that his poetry and paintings enabled people to 'dig deeper' or understand more clearly their relationship to God and the world through examining their human experience. Similarly, Wordsworth, wanted to create a discourse between human beingsand institutions, and to explore the gap between them and the role each played in the decay and …show more content…
His work opened the door to a new kind of artistic expression, filled with strong emotion and lived experience. By laying bare his true self, for others to freely examine, Rousseau enabled other artists to do so as well. True art was art that was rich in honesty and self-expression. It was lived experience, both the beautiful and the ugly, it was raw emotion, it was imagination, but above all it was truth – truth as experienced through a living human …show more content…
Values are not absolute, they are contingent - they are used to assess other values. Unchanging principles become life even if those principles deny our experience of life. Thus we must be able to understand the development of morality. Here Rousseau’s influence on Shelley becomes more apparent. The point is to break free from the constraints of institutionalized subjugation, and to create a society, which is more akin to being childlike, that is, free of restrictions from unjust laws and prescribed morality. There is importance in the things we feel and see for they always occur again.Instead of viewing time as linear progression we must be aware that every moment repeats itself continuously throughout eternity. Thus, we are still able to see within today’s society how Romanticism has shaped us. Its roots can be found in other branches of philosophy such as Existentialism. Nietzsche in particular, highlights the concept s of Rousseau in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Zarathustra after being in isolation for 40 years emerges from solitude with a special wisdom, which he wishes to share with the world. He believes that God is dead, and in that God is dead, we need something on which to rely. In this work, Nietzsche not only analyzes the effect the church on society, but also shows how society is evolving from religion toward finding technology to be the standard. The ‘herd’ (captive