Presumption of innocence

The Daffodils Romanticism extended between (1789-1820 and was affected by the French revolution, Napoleonic wars and the pan European movement across every art. People were split between those who wanted to search the powers and fear of an inner imaginative life and those who thought that living a romantic life is a form of dangerous self- indulgence those who believed in escaping to nature and those who wanted for poets to act such prophet and legislators and reform society . The period…

Life is sweet, but life is hard. In “The Tyger” and “The Lamb” by William Blake, the speaker expresses a conflicted attitude towards God and the two poems differ in their tone towards God and all of his creations. The speaker, a follower of the christian faith, creates a powerful tone through the use of diction, imagery, and repetition in “The Tyger” and “The Lamb.” Both poems have conflicting attitudes toward God, for “The Lamb” creates a confident and passionate tone while “The Tyger”…

The images of death and innocence in William Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper” poems “The Chimney Sweeper” is a title of two poems by William Blake, the first one was published in the collection of poems Songs of Innocence in 1789, the second one in Songs of Experience in 1794. Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience contain several titles which are contrasting with each other and Blake presents innocence and experience of the poems of chimney sweepers as a perfect example of it. As both these…

witness the outrage against children during the Industrial Revolution. Blake was born on 1757 in London. He is a prophet, poet, painter, and engraver. Blake have radical political views and revolutionary standards (Raine, 7-13). He published Songs of Innocence in 1789 and Songs of Experience in 1794 both of these publication contain a poem called “The Chimney Sweeper.”…

having innocence and how growing up you start to lose your innocence. When you first have your innocence you think the world is perfect and you see it through a black and white lense.However when you lose your innocence you start to notice the hardships people start to go through in life, and you start to notice that the world is not just black and white it has many other colors waiting to be discovered. I started my portfolio with a haiku, that sets up childhood. Then I put a poem on Innocence,…

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 as another one of Blake’s poems “Tyger” which has a…

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…

Compare the way Blake and Heaney present strong attitudes towards society. William Blake and Seamus Heaney were both visionaries and social critics, who presented their strong attitudes towards society through writing critical poems in protest against the corruptions of society. Blake’s poems were based around the transition of idealised agrarian lifestyle changing to an urbanised society, written in the 1700’s. Heaney’s poems were written much later on during the 19th century, to present his…

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…

Songs of Innocence, a little boy is forced to go through the misery of exploitation with the hopes of a better tomorrow (Blake pp. 1-2). Unfortunately, the little boy is oblivious and unaware of the kind of injustices posed to him because of his innocence due to the young age. The Songs of Experience seems to echo the ordeal of the chimney sweeper…