William Blake Poems

1. WILLIAM BLAKE
By: Keelie Ralston
Friday, March 28, 2014

2. About William Blake
William Blake (November 28,1757 - August 12, 1827) was
an English poet, painter and printmaker. Largely
unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake is now
considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry
and visual arts of the Romantic Age.
William wrote a lot of poems, but his most popular one
is : Song of Innocence and Experience. With this poem
these poems are in it, The Tyger, The Lamb, A Poison
Tree, The Human Abstract, and London.
Friday, March 28, 2014

3. The Tyger
This poem is comprised of six quatrains in rhymed couplets.
The opening question enacts what will be the single dramatic gesture of the poem,
and each stanza elaborates on this conception.
William is building on the idea that nature, like a work of art, must in some way
contain a reflection of its creator. The tiger is strikingly beautiful yet also horrific in
its capacity for violence.
The open awe of “The Tyger” contrasts with the easy confidence, in “The Lamb,”
of a child’s innocent faith in a good-natured universe.
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4. The Lamb
“The Lamb” has two stanzas, each containing five
rhymed couplets.
The poem is a child’s song, in the form of a question
and answer.
The child’s question is both naive and profound. The
question (“who made thee?”) is a simple one, and yet
the child is also tapping into the deep and timeless
questions that all human beings have, about their own
origins and the nature of creation.
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5. Songs of Innocence and
Experience
Songs of Innocence and Experience is a collection of
poems by William Blake. It appeared in two phases.
“Innocence” and “Experience” are definitions of
consciousness that rethink Milton’s existential-mythic
states of “Paradise” and the “Fall.”
It is about the innocent, pastoral world of childhood
against an adult world of corruption and repression.
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6. Works Cited
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake
http://www.google.com/search?q=william
+blake&safe=active&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=dIwx
U6uCCYyskAeOwoGoBQ&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=814&bih=592
http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/poetry/blake.htm
http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/blake/section6.rhtml
http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/blake/section1.rhtml
http://www.google.com/search?q=the+lamb+william
+blake&safe=active&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=DuIy
U6bgHam0sQT6kIGQBA&sqi=2&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1116&bih=592
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_of_Innocence_and_of_Experience
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