Location via proxy:   [ UP ]  
[Report a bug]   [Manage cookies]                
Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 167 views

    Songs of Innocence

    Uploaded by

    Giulia Parigi
    William Blake was an English artist and poet born in 1757 in London who remained poor throughout his life. He broke from conventions of realistic representation in art and emphasized the power of imagination. In poetry, he rejected neoclassical styles and themes, believing ideal forms should come from inner visions rather than nature. Some of his best known works are Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, which contrast innocent childhood views with more pessimistic adult perspectives on reality. Blake saw himself as a prophet who could see deeper into life through imagination rather than just perception. He was also politically engaged, supporting abolition and equality as championed in the French Revolution while criticizing the injustices of industrial society.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Songs of Innocence

    Uploaded by

    Giulia Parigi
    167 views2 pages
    William Blake was an English artist and poet born in 1757 in London who remained poor throughout his life. He broke from conventions of realistic representation in art and emphasized the power of imagination. In poetry, he rejected neoclassical styles and themes, believing ideal forms should come from inner visions rather than nature. Some of his best known works are Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, which contrast innocent childhood views with more pessimistic adult perspectives on reality. Blake saw himself as a prophet who could see deeper into life through imagination rather than just perception. He was also politically engaged, supporting abolition and equality as championed in the French Revolution while criticizing the injustices of industrial society.

    Original Description:

    ss

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    William Blake was an English artist and poet born in 1757 in London who remained poor throughout his life. He broke from conventions of realistic representation in art and emphasized the power of imagination. In poetry, he rejected neoclassical styles and themes, believing ideal forms should come from inner visions rather than nature. Some of his best known works are Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, which contrast innocent childhood views with more pessimistic adult perspectives on reality. Blake saw himself as a prophet who could see deeper into life through imagination rather than just perception. He was also politically engaged, supporting abolition and equality as championed in the French Revolution while criticizing the injustices of industrial society.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    167 views2 pages

    Songs of Innocence

    Uploaded by

    Giulia Parigi
    William Blake was an English artist and poet born in 1757 in London who remained poor throughout his life. He broke from conventions of realistic representation in art and emphasized the power of imagination. In poetry, he rejected neoclassical styles and themes, believing ideal forms should come from inner visions rather than nature. Some of his best known works are Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, which contrast innocent childhood views with more pessimistic adult perspectives on reality. Blake saw himself as a prophet who could see deeper into life through imagination rather than just perception. He was also politically engaged, supporting abolition and equality as championed in the French Revolution while criticizing the injustices of industrial society.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    of 2

    WILLIAM BLAKE

    Life
    William Blake was born in London in 1757 and he died there in 1827. His origins were humble and
    he remained poor all his life.
    When he was child his father sent him to a drawing school. Then he became an apprentice to a
    famous engraver. He began to draw the monuments in the old churches of London from which
    derived his love of the Gothic style. Later he studied at the Royal Academy of Art.
    Blake broke with the conventions to respect perspectives and proportions and the standards of
    realistic representation and created a new kind of art which emphasised the power of the
    imagination.
    Blake the poet
    His poetry is regarded as early Romantic because he rejected neoclassical literary style and
    themes. He affirmed the importance of immagination over reason and believed that ideal forms
    should be created not from observations of nature but from inner visions.
    The most accessible of Blakes works are the short lyrical verses:

    Songs of innocence: The narrator is a shepherd (pastore) who receives inspirations from a
    child that plays his songs celebrating the divine in all creation. Childhood is view as the
    symbol of innocence, a state of the soul connected with happiness, freedom and
    immagination. These poems are written in a simple, musical language, rich in symbols draw
    from the Bible and Christian pastorals. Songs of innocence were produced before the
    French Revolution when Blakes enthusiasm for the liberal ideas was high

    Songs of experience: was produced when the period of the Terror was at its height and a
    more pessimistic view of life emerges in these poems. Experience, identified with
    adulthood, coexists with and completes Innocence, thus providing another point of view on
    reality
    The poet became a prophet

    The man knows the world through the imagination and not through the perception. Imagination or
    "the divine vision" means to see more into the life of things. God, the child and the poet have this
    power of vision. The Poet therefore becomes a sort of prophet
    Blakes interest in social problems
    Blake was concerned with the political and social problems of his time: he supported the abolition
    of slavery and asserted the egalitarian principles of French Revolution. He sympathised with the
    victims of industrial society and condemned the injustices consequent of the Industrial Revolution.

    Style
    His poems have a very simple structure, his verse is linear and rhythmical and is characterised by
    frequent use of repetition.
    There is a highly use of symbols. For example the child, the father and Christ represent the states
    of innocence, experience, and a higher innocence.

    You might also like