LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY (18TH 19TH) CENTURIES
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The poems defend the industrial revolution as helping England’s economy.
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The poems criticize religious institutions for not helping the oppressed.
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The poems reject experience in favor of innocence.
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The poems reject innocence in favor of experience.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Songs of Innocence and of Experience Blake’s vision embraces radical subjects such as poverty, child labour and abuse, the repressive nature of the state and church, as well as the right of children to be treated as individuals with their own desires.
Detailed explanation-2: -Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience ( 1794 ) juxtapose the innocent, pastoral world of childhood against an adult world of corruption and repression; while such poems as “The Lamb” represent a meek virtue, poems like “The Tyger” exhibit opposing, darker forces.
Detailed explanation-3: -Blake’s poetry features many characteristics of the romantic spirit-in the importance he attached to imagination, in his mysticism and symbolism, in his love of liberty, in his humanitarian sympathies, in his idealization of childhood, in the pastoral setting of many of his poems, and in his lyricism.