William Blake
1 (1) The songs of Innocence is a lovely volume poems, presenting a happy and innocent world, though not without its evil and sufferings.
(2) The songs of Experience paints a different world, a world of misery, poverty, disease, war and repress with melancholy tone
(1) The two books hold the similar subject-matter, but the tone, emphasis and conclusion differs.
2 Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell(1790) marks his entry into maturity. The Poem was composed during the change of French Revolution and it plays the double role both as a satire and a revolutionary Prophecy. In this Poem, Blake explain the relationship of the contraries.
“without contraries, there is no progression. The marriage to Blake means the reconciliation of the contraries, not the subordination of the one to the other.
3 Blake writes his poem in plain and direct language ,his poem often carries the lyric beauty with immense compressing of meaning. He distrusts the abstractness and tend to embody his views with visual images, symbolism in wide range is also a distinctive feature of his poetry.
A. 创作
A). The earlier period:
a. The first printed work:
Poetical Sketches is his first printed work, which is a collection of youthful verse.
b. The songs of Innocence:
