Frank Blake

In the early thirteen hundreds, the poet Dante Alighieri completed his magnum opus, the Divine Comedy. This epic poem follows the Pilgrim, who is led by Virgil and Beatrice, through every aspect of the Christian afterlife according to Catholic tradition. The Pilgrim is Dante himself, who was chosen to bear witness the evils of hell and wonders of heaven and, by doing so, change the hearts of his readers. Additionally, the pilgrim was chosen because some secret sin, of which he need only to…

Sweeper’,” Camille Paglia interprets the sweeper’s mispronunciation of “sweep” as a tool to accuse the society’s, the third party in the abuse, “inadvertently sending a damning message to the oblivious world. It’s really the thundering indictment of Blake as poet-prophet: Weep, you callous society that enslaves and murders its young; weep for yourself and your defenseless victims” (1466). Furthermore, this line also delivers a serious pun since the child is weeping his mother’s loss and the…

The two poems by William Blake, The Tyger and The lamb are two poems that represent two opposites. The Tyger is the representation of evil and The Lamb is the representation of good and innocence. He, William Blake, was a successful poet and painter born in November 1757 in the city of London. William Blake thought and had a theory that injustice, death, war, and suffering were caused by human beings and because of their erroneous or false beliefs. William Blake wrote 2 collections; the first…

William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) was an eminent English Romantic Poet, hose Lyrical Ballad, as a result of joint efforts, co-authoring with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Contributed to launch the Romantic Age in English Literature. He is known as the poet of Nature, reflecting his inner feelings while appreciating the wonderings and beauty of it. (Norton, 543-45) The poem ‘We Are Seven’, as Wordsworth says, has been “written an Alfoxden in the spring of 1798. The little girl who is the heroine I met…

What is my life all about? Why am I living in a world that is a hamster wheel of birth, work and death? What is it that makes my heart sing and how could I live by my own standards? And, most importantly, why am I not listening to that inner voice that keeps trying to warn me when I’m about to do something stupid. Every few years I would find myself practically homeless, broke, hungry, trying to hang onto whatever strands of a human existence I had left. I had a hole within me that was so vast…

The Exodus hero Moses. The Biblical Moses, portrayed here as a shepherd in a print by contemporary Israeli artist Mordechai Beck, protectively clasps a sheep in his arms. Photo: Mordechai Beck. Moses’ story is told in the Book of Exodus, but it starts in Genesis with the story of Abraham and his family with whom God makes a covenant. Generations later the Biblical Moses draws the extended family together in the form of a nation with a structure and code of law, given to him on Mount Sinai. Below…

According to biography.com Henri Matisse was born on December 31, 1869 in Le Cateau in France. He was born to a family who worked in the grain business. Starting off as a young man Matisse worked as a legal clerk then pursued a degree in law in Paris from 1887-1889. When he returned to Saint-Quentin he received an occupation in a law office. Although he already had a steady occupation he began to take drawing classes every morning before work. Matisse was suffering from an illness at 21 years…

William Blake William Blake is a poet, painter, and engraver who lived in the late 18th century to early 19th century(G.E Bently). Blake became a well known writer despite his difference between other writers of the time. Through his work as a poet he hoped to achieve change in social order and men’s mind(Poetry Foundation). Although many people of his time thought him crazy, Blake became a strong influence of the Romantic Age and inspired numerous writers and artists throughout the rest of…

William Blake has been regarded as one of the most influential poets of the Romantic Era. He frequently expressed his visions of spiritual connections through his literary writings. Blake was raised in a very religious household. Blake’s mother was a Moravian, but neglected her faith after uniting with Blake’s father to join the Church of England. Blake’s frequent references to religious figures and episodes, leads one to analyze how impactful religion was to Blake’s poems. According to one…

snow,"(1). Blake gave the chimney sweeper in "The Chimney Sweeper (1789)" poem a name to make a connection to the reader that it was just a normal person like them, that was forced into doing such dangerous and harmful labour. In "The Chimney Sweeper (1794)" poem the protagonist is not given a name…