Poetry by William Blake

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 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…

Linkin, the author states that William Blake uses idiolects that demonstrate how characters organize their way of thinking. He believes that Blake’s use of linguistic patterns were interrupted by verbal differences that made up an ironic tension that inspires us to look at the bigger picture and reality of it all. In “The Chimney Sweeper” (of innocence), Blake uses imagery to represent biblical ideas and makes up his own symbols in the poem, as well as traditional ones. Blake uses religion as a…

“The Tyger” by William Blake Published with other poems in Songs of Experience collection in 1794, “The Tyger” is one of the most famous if not the most widely read poems by William Blake. Including “The Tyger,” the poet wrote most of his poems using his radical tone. In most of his works, he often railed against oppressive institutions such as the monarchy or the church as well as the other cultural traditions like classist, racist or sexist, which stifled passion or imagination (Blake and…

the methods of creating an abundance of believable sensation with limited senses. Key words: Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, sensation 1 Introduction John Keats, one of the main figures of Romantic poets, made contribution to English poetry with some of the most beautiful sensory language, notably in the series of odes. To Autumn is considered…