WILLIAM BLAKE

Poetics

poet and paainter

visonary poet poetry is always
accompained by
paintings
Revolutionary poet
belief in total freedom
against forms of oppression
belief in equality among races and genders
agaist church as institution - responsable
of dualism and fragmentation of
consciousness
against ideals of ENLIGHTMENT - for him
POETRY is the triumph of IMAGINATION that
helps to understand the wold. It belongs to God,
children and poet.
Pre-symbolist poet
Songs of innocence
Songs of experience
Collection published in two different period but linked
juxtaposition of the INNOCENCE, PASTORAL
WORLD OF CHILDHOOD and ADULT WORLD
of CORRUPTION and REPRESSION
exploration of value s and limitations of two
perspectives: the same situation is seen in
two way ex The lamd and The tyger

innocence experience
dramatizes the hope laments the way in
and the fears which experiences of
of children and traces adult life destroy what
the transformation is good in innocence
from children to adults
style
simple and direct language but symbolic
3 stanzas: symmetry between the first and
the last
ring composition
use of metaphors and allitterations