Robert Blake

In the poem “London,” William Blake uses imagery to elucidate political and religious corruption, condemning both church and state while accentuating the utter hopelessness and despair of the city’s prevailing social condition. This poem was written during the Industrial Revolution, when the changing times were leaving the poor behind to suffer. There was also great tension due to fighting with France that resulted from the French Revolutionary Wars. The overall experience provided by the…

The poems I have chosen to analyze are “The Lamb” and “The Tyger” by William Blake. Blake’s opinions about humanity are quite special as well as his visions of Christ and Christianity because he believed in God but not in the church. After reading and comparing the two poems, initially I thought Blake was trying to identify good and evil. Then I saw it more as describing Jesus as the lamb and the devil as the tyger. The Lamb of God being a well-known alias of Jesus made that determination fairly…

“The Chimney Sweeper” from “Songs of Innocence” by William Blake features the difficult situation that common people were going through. The title of this poem shows that it is happening during The Romantic Period in the 1800’s whenever the kids were forced to do backbreaking labor. In the late 1700’s, prices increased sharply and work became scarce (“Chimney Sweeper Background” 541 ). The poem presents how a child was sold and what his life was after that day that will scar him for the rest of…

WILLIAM BLAKE is a 22-year-old student at Quinnipiac University. William is about to finish his senior year student teaching. After graduation, William and his evangelical Christian girlfriend MARY plan to start a life together as public school teachers. William is a staunch conservative. He is enraged when President Obama is re-elected. William dreams of an America in which conservative, Tea Party Republicans dominate the political landscape. While William thinks and talks like a conservative,…

These poems tell of children whom yell “weep”, not because they are crying, but because they can not pronounce sweep. In two poems we are told similar stories of chimney sweeping children. But what differences can be found between the two children? In the poem of “Experience” the boy is yelling “weep” and while doing so he is asked by someone as to where his parents are and to their surprise they are at the church praying. On the other hand in the poem “Innocence” the boy is completely ignored…

In the first version of “The Chimney Sweeper” from the Songs of Innocence, the boy is having to become a chimney sweeper because it is a necessity. The child says, “When my mother died I was very young, and my father sold me” (1459). During this time, child labor was very popular, and his father sold him because they were in poverty. The second version of “The Chimney Sweeper” the child was more than likely forced to do the job because his parents made him. The child’s parent is very alive…

"The Fireplace Sweeper" involves six quatrains, each after the AABB rhyme conspire, with two rhyming couplets for every quatrain. The main stanza presents the speaker, a young man who has been constrained by conditions into the unsafe control of stack sweeper. The second stanza presents Tom Dacre, a kindred stack clear who goes about as a thwart to the speaker. Tom is vexed about his present situation, so the speaker solaces him until the point that he nods off. The following three stanzas…

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…

To what extent does tragedy impose on our knowledge of suffering? First it is important to realize, not everyone follows the path of righteousness; most of mankind hold values that conflict with opinions on how to live. Susan Sipple relays, " No single voice is sufficient. Women 's voices will convey a different experience of suffering than the voices of men; black voices speak differently than white voices; martyrs ' voices will not match the voices of inquisitors[…]." and so forth. When…

William Blake (1757-1827) was an English artist and poet whose works “The Divine Image” and “A Divine Image” were created during the Romantics Era. The political, cultural and historical events of this era molded the focus and perception of human nature in his poems towards God and religion. The titles are inherently influenced by teachings of the Bible, which state “so God created man in the divine image, in the divine image he created him; male and female he created them.” (New International…