LITERATURE QUESTIONS
ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETRY
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The loss of childhood and discovery of the adult world
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The fall of Satan
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The life of Blake
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The history of London
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Songs of Innocence and of Experience were intended by Blake to show ‘the two contrary states of the human soul’. The Tyger is the contrary poem to The Lamb in the Songs of Innocence. The Lamb is about a kindly God who ‘calls himself a Lamb’ and is himself meek and mild.
Detailed explanation-2: -Songs of Innocence and of Experience, masterpieces of English lyric poetry, written and illustrated by William Blake. Songs of Innocence, published in 1789, was Blake’s first great demonstration of “illuminated printing, ” his unique technique of publishing both text and hand-coloured illustration together.
Detailed explanation-3: -To Blake childhood is a period of innocence since the sophistical social set up has not affected the children. Since they are free in their pursuit of joy, they are pretty aloof from the mannerism and divided aims of the world. They want to play and frisk in the greenery until they are tired and satisfied.
Detailed explanation-4: -Blake’s vision embraces radical subjects such as poverty, child labour and abuse, the repressive nature of state and church, as well as right of children to be treated as individuals with their own desires. Many of the poems in Songs of Experience respond to counterparts in Songs of Innocence.