William Blake Sacrifice

The Christ-figure Lamb and the Grenade of Self-Sacrifice William Blake, a figure of the Romantic Age, was an influential English writer and artist during the 19th century. From his youth Blake was interested in the arts. At the early age of ten Blake desired to become a painter. As a result his parents sent him to drawing school. At the age of twelve he began writing poetry. When he was fourteen apprenticed with and engraver wehn art school became too costly.
Blake’s first published work, “Poetical Sketches,” was done in 1783, and was a series of poems protesting the war, King George III’s exceedingly disparate treatment of the American colonies and tyranny. He went on to publish other thought provoking classical works and is widely considered not only one of the …show more content…
In the pre-chorus of the song, the speaker questions their relationship with the woman by singing, “Gave you all I had / And you tossed it in the trash” (Mars). These lines represent the speaker’s uneasiness and dissatisfaction with how and ultimately why their relationship with the woman in question has come to an end. As the chorus goes on, the speaker outlines all of the sacrifices they would have made for her, claiming that “[they’d] catch a grenade for [her] / Throw [their] hand on a blade for [her] / . . . jump in front of a train for [her] / [and finally] . . . do anything for [her]” (Mars). These lines depict Bruno’s willingness to sacrifice his own body, to “. . . go through all this pain” (Mars), just as God sacrificed his only son, Jesus, as stated in King James Bible (or King James Version), “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son”. Just as the speaker would do anything to protect and show, notably unrequited, affection towards their lover, so would God protect and show affection toward the world, and both with what they hold quite near and dear to