Poetry by William Blake

William Blake was a 19th century artist and writer who is regarded as a figure of the romantic age. He was born in London in 1757. He attended school for a brief time period and was mainly educated at home by his mother. The bible had a major influence on his life and his works. He would draw inspiration from the bible for his writing and art. Blake was known to have visions of God. He said that when he was only four he saw God’s head through a window. Then when he was only ten he had a vision…

William Blake “The Tyger” is a poem written by William Blake and published with a collection of poems in a work titled “The Songs of Experience” in 1794. William Blake was born in London in 1757 to James Blake a hosier (Morsberger,). Blake expressed a desire at the age of 10 to study art, which his father allowed, paying for his tuition and for casts to study at home (Morsberger,). At the age of 14, Blake was apprenticed to an engraver, learning a trade that would be valuable to him in…

William Blake was a 19th century writer and artist who is regarded as a seminal figure of the Romantic Age. His writing have influenced countless writers and artists through the ages, and has been deemed both a major port and an original thinker. Born in 1757 in London, England, William Blake began writing at an early age and claimed to have had his first vision, of a tree full of angels, at age 10. He studied engraving and grew to love gothic art, which he incorporated into his own unique works…

William Blake was a radical poet who encompassed the ideals of the Romantic Era while also promoting social change with his work. The first goal of the Romantic Movement, God in nature, is a huge part of Blake’s writings. He was also a strong believer in the second objective, putting desire back into the world. Besides that, he also wrote about social issues that he thought should be changed. Blake was a revolutionary poet who fully embraced the spirit of the Romantic Era and radical ideas.…

William Blake was a British poet and painter who lived during the French Revolution. The devastating end to it caused Blake to lose faith in the goodness of mankind. This explains why much of the poems in Songs of Experience are about bad experiences rather than good ones. The purpose of the poems in Songs of Innocence and Experience were to show the two opposing states of the human soul. These being that a child with no experiences are innocent and happy, but when they grow and gain new…

The church was an institution that set many strict standards on society. In Blake’s poem, “The Garden of Love”, we see the church as the sublime figure that enforces religious and social morals on the people. It is evident that Blake is writing from personal experience. He says that he went into the garden and there stood a chapel. It was built on the fields on which he used to play. (Imperceptibly, the game of love.) The doors of the chapel were very distressing. “Thou shalt not” was…

In William Blake’s poetical verses explaining the two contrary states of human existence, he observes the world with an extensive view from a state of “innocence and of an imagination unspoiled by stains of worldliness” (Keynes 12), and from a state of “indignation and pity for the sufferings of mankind as he saw them in the streets of London (Keynes 12). Holding firm to such ideologies as proposed by John Milton and Emmanuel Swedenborg, Blake believed in the philosophy that because all men were…

The Pure Simplicity of Deep Meaning This poem begins with a question addressing a lamb by a child asking about its creator in “The Lamb”. The poem starts off with the question “little lamb, who made thee?” William Blake does not hesitate to bring the title into place. The lamb represents purity and innocence; children are innocent as well which makes the lamb and the narrator have a connection. Later we learn that the lamb and the narrator have the same creator. This goes along the same context…

London’s Children William Blake was born in the year 1757, over 300 years ago, and yet his writings are still a source of social criticism in the 21st century. Blake began the love of writing at the early age of twelve. He learned and traveled around the world developing his writer’s sense until he decided he would teach the world to not be ignorant. People would have their eyes opened to the truth. His poem, “The Chimney Sweeper,” was an eye-opening poem on the horrors of young children in…

More than thirty years would pass after his death before William Blake, an under- acknowledged during his time, musical poet and artist, starting receiving an admiring consideration for his work. The Enlightenment period delivered new philosophies and beliefs that rivaled the old, a thorough disturbance of government dynamics, and figures who challenged society members to think in ways that had not before. Blake, like many others of the time, advocated for transpositions in many regards. Often…