William Blake AO5
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George N. - The Chimney Sweeper (I)
George Norton: “Tom’s dream functions like the workings of ideology”
Carol R.
Carol Rumens: “The effect of innocence on experience is less one of mockery than moral complication”
Nicholas M. - The Lamb
Nicholas Marsh: ‘Biblical lambs are also symbols of suffering, sacrific and redemption’
The Tyger & Earth's Answer
“Without complexity (the more dangerous and intimidating side of the world) a work of art won’t be fully honest and authentic”
Simon M. - “In the ideal world…”
Simon Mold: “In the ideal world of the songs of innocence, it is indeed often the child who leads.”
Ross W. - “(aspects of) Christianity are…”
Ross Wilson: “(Aspects of) Christianity are reduced or deformed versions - that rely upon suffering.”
Nicholas M. - The Chimney Sweeper (E)
Nicholas Marsh: “The church and state enables them (the parents) to absolve their consciences”
‘ A Failure of love from the sweepers parents in the church […] absoliving the parents from any repsonibility’
Carol R. - The Divine Image
Carol Rumens: “The idea that prayers are directed to this human form, rather than God, are radical.”
Raymond W. - Earth’s Answer
Raymond Williams: “[Blake] criticised his materialistic society for blunting imagination.”
Linda F. - London
Linda Freeman: “People make their own graves, Blake insists, when they refuse to open their minds.”
John H.
John Higgs: “(Not allowing contraries to exist) would result in a static, unchanging world devoid of joy or surprise.”
Brendan C. - Intro to Innocence
Brendan Cooper: “Perhaps the conversion of artistic feeling into words itself is a loss of innocence.”
‘Nature [is] closely intertwined with both childhood and Blake’s conception of innocence’
Linda F. - The Chimney Sweeper (I)
Linda Freedman: “(The narrator is) unable to comprehend the world he finds himself in, (making) innocence a much more frightening state than experience.”
George N. - The Chimney Sweeper (I)
George Norton: “Religion is active on children’s oppression because it makes them promises about the after life rather than dealing with injustices on earth.”
The Garden of Love - passage
‘The poem makes the psychological passage from childhood innocence to adult experience.’
The Garden of Love - organised religion
‘The poem equates the fall not with sin, but with organised religion itself.’
John G. - The Tyger
John Grant: “Nothing in the poem is ‘obviously affirmative”
Linda F. - The Chimney Sweeper poems
Linda Freedman: “Issues of both social criticism and organised religion both as ‘manifestations of the same fundamental problem of blinkered perception.”
Brendan Cooper - Ecchoing Green
‘Nature is seen here as a gateway to spirituality’
Mold - The Lamb
‘[The speaker has] a God given voice’
‘The Little Boy Lost’
‘The child represents the human spirit seeking the conventional ‘promised’ God, which is non-existent’
Brendan Cooper - Nurse’s song (i)
‘Childhood is seen as a time of happiness, freedom and profound oneness with the natural environment’
Nicholas Marsh - Nurse’s song (i)
‘A paradise of intimate human connection and happiness’
Nurse’s Song (experience)
‘[the children represent] the expression of a potential freedom that [the nurse] cannot bear to contemplate, and which she must repress at all costs’
Nicholas Marsh - Earth’s Answer
‘Earth could throw off God’s punishment by her own efforts if only she had the will to do so.’
Nicholas Marsh - Holy Thursday (experience)
‘The voice in this poem is outraged and speaks with revolutionary anger’
Nicholas Marsh - Experience poems
‘leaving us feeling both indignant and unease’
The Sick Rose
‘Corrosive sexual guilt’
Damrosch - The Sick Rose
‘The Rose can also symbolise Britain’
The Garden of Love - Love
‘Love […] is presented as something innate and fundemental to being human, yet it is under threat from the dogma of organised religion.’
Nicholas Marsh - London
‘The imagery suggests that mental imprisonment... [is] just as much a prison as...iron bars’
Infant Sorrow
‘Existence is inseparable from suffering’
The lamb
‘For Blake, nature is closely intertwined with his conception of innocence’