Poetry by William Blake

genius. William Blake As indicated in my sporadic publishing record, I have been dabbling in poetry a little over twenty years. I spent my first ten years writing and attending readings and workshops. A couple of poems were published which thrilled me, but I had no idea why they were published while other work was rejected. As a frustrated writer I started a reading series with my wife’s ballet company called “Trickshooter Poetry Club”. In this venue we combined poetry readings,…

rather than the classical. Romanticism also emphasizes religion, supernatural elements and idealization of women and children. William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley and William Blake are known as the major figures of Romanticism in English literature. Their romantic poems, “The Lamb” by William Blake, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth, “Kubla Khan” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Ode to The West Wind” by Percy Bysshe Shelley and will be…

the world around them, is to write and read different types of poetry. Starting from the streets of Athens with the philosophical and artistic minds of the Greeks, poetry quickly moved East, hastily engulfing the entire globe because of it’s ability to answer questions and power to put into words what the average man cannot explain. Today, as scholars and students study the evolution of literary advances, the Romantic period of poetry is accredited to some of the greatest expletory missions of…

Dying, destruction and devastation are three words to describe death. Edna St. Vincent Millay and William Blake described death similarity. They each talk about their feelings towards dying. In “Conscientious Objector,” Edna St. Vincent Millay and “The Fly,” William Blake, the authors portray the idea of death from different perspectives. “Edna St. Vincent Millay was the oldest of three girls.” (Edna 1) She had a difficult childhood because her mother divorced her father because of his…

Composing song or poetry is a simple form of artistic expression. Through song and poem words are converted to form an image that expresses feelings and emotions only by a very small amount of words. These artists have done this because putting down words on paper generated by emotions going through one’s head is a way of re-living the past and remembering the overwhelming emotions they grapple with throughout their lives. Poet Michelle Williams states that “…. humans have always grappled with…

alike, the poor and rich, the strong and weak, the brave and the cowards. Because of its nature that remains to be a mystery, men and women have turned to poetry to vividly describe it, seeking to shed a glimpse of light on this “might foe” Such thoughts are captured in the two poems by John Donne, “Death, Be Not proud” and “The Tyger” by William Blake. For sure death is just a temporal state. “Death, Be Not Proud” by John Donne The theme in this poem is death. The author refutes the claim and…

After reading the two Williams’ works, I couldn’t hold back my curiosity about the differences in their poems. How could London vary so much in two productions? What caused the disparity? This sends me thinking deeply. First and foremost, the most possible reason is the background. The two writers stayed in two different ages, so it’s hard to avoid the difference in their writing styles. London by William Blake was written in 1794, at that time, Britain had become a capitalist society for…

One Romantic, William Blake, used his words to raise imagination over observing something. He thinks what we see in the world is passing, but what we can’t see is real. Romantics also used their words to fight for the world to be like they thought it should. One thing they…

aspects and categories. Poetry and other works of literature have attempted to tackle these questions and also leave their views on which side they fall. William Shakespeare, William Blake and William Wordsworth all fall under the category of praising modernity, and support the push into the new and modern. However, they show this in different ways and specific subcategories. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare…

viewed religion. In this selection William Blake explained though his poem There Is No Natural Religion (parts a and b) what he considers religion and how he feels religion must have come to be. He also explains in this poem how he feels there must be a divine entity to give humans complex thoughts because he argues that these thoughts could not just have come from nothing. In the second section of readings, page 178-203, there are poems that all can from William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and…