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- 2. Bio of Blake (1757-1827) - Only formal education was in art - Engraver apprentice - Married at 24 - Couple was childless - Declared that all he knew was in the Bible - The Old & New Testament are a great code of art. - Little known as an artist and entirely unknown as a poet - Poems and art are characterized as part of the Romantic movement
- 3. Religious Themes - Revolutionary (and Contradictory) Beliefs - The necessity of both “devils” and “angels” (Marriage of Heaven and Hell) - Physical limitations vs unbound reason (There is No Natural Religion) - Different perceptions of the “Poetic Genius” (All Religions are One) Visions and Anti-Materialism
- 4. Illustrations - To read a Blake poem without the pictures is to miss something important
- 5. Comparison Between Texts - Songs of Innocence and of Experience - “Two contrary states of the human soul”(Blake 44). - Poems are so close together that one cannot speak of one without bringing up the other. - Innocence vs. Experience - Young vs. Old - Bright vs. Dark - * Good vs. Evil
- 6. The Lamb vs. The Tyger The Lamb - Bright and innocent - “Gave thee clothing of delight, Softest clothing wooly bright”(50). - Good - All goodness in world (happiness) - Child asking the lamb who made thee The Tyger - Dark and sinister - “What the hammer? What the chain? In what furnace was thy brain?”(57). - “What immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry”(57). - Evil - Complicated evils of the world - “Did he who made the Lamb make *The idea of good and evil is important because the question that is being asked when reading these two poems, is how can both good and evil exist in the same world.
- 7. Illustration from “The Lamb” & "The Tyger"
- 8. Your Turn!!!!! - Take the poem “A Divine Image” and compare and contrast it between both collections of work. - Pull out main ideas, quotes, thoughts, words - Write on board and we’ll discuss!
- 9. Blake’s Influence on Modern Authors Book of Revelations “The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun” - Blake, c. 1803-1805 Red Dragon - Thomas Harris, 1981
- 10. Manhunter, 1986 Hannibal, Season 3, 2015 “The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun” - Blake, c. 1805
- 11. V for Vendetta - Alan Moore
- 12. Guess the title of the Blake work where Moore found this poem! *Hint: It’s about an author we’ve been discussing since Week 1
Editor's Notes
- "Reverent of the Bible but hostile to the Church of England (indeed, to almost all forms of organised religion), Blake was influenced by the ideals and ambitions of the French and American Revolutions." -from the Blake Wikipedia page, but we can look up more about these ideas & maybe pick out a portion of his work for the class to (re)read and analyze. Blake was an engraving/engraver? apprentice and when he was assigned to engrave images at Westminster Abbey he had religious visions He was super stubborn & was not a fan of the art styles that were forced upon him in art school. But he did like the work of Michelangelo and Raphael He was totally into the American & French revolutions but unhappy (obviously) when the Reign of Terror happened in France He illustrated one of Mary Wollstonecraft's works "Blake is sometimes considered (along with Mary Wollstonecraft and her husband William Godwin) a forerunner of the 19th-century "free love" movement, a broad reform tradition starting in the 1820s that held that marriage is slavery, and advocated the removal of all state restrictions on sexual activity such as homosexuality, prostitution, and adultery, culminating in the birth control movement of the early 20th century." -another cool thing from the Wikipedia page. It also mentions Visions of the Daughters of Albion which is a poem suggesting his views on love, idk if that's in our textbook "One of Blake's strongest objections to orthodox Christianity is that he felt it encouraged the suppression of natural desires and discouraged earthly joy"
- -can get a lot about religion from his bio in the textbook
- Heather-I would like to do some of the comparisons between collections
- -do you think we should give them two poems to compare and analyze??? --- (this is joe: perhaps we could have them take a look at “Little Black Boy?” Or “The Divine Image?” -we can split the class in half, half innocence half experience, then make smaller groups from that (like we did in class on Monday) and then they have to pull main ideas from the text and key words and then write them on the board and we can compare and contrast out loud.