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Blake Flashcards

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What did Blake believe was the force that made great art?

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Imagination

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Years of publication: Innocence & Experience

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Innocence : 1789
Experience: 1794

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Differences between Songs of Innocence & Experience

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Innocence:
- Pastoral, harmony, virginity etc
- Hints showing underlying danger to vulnerable state

Experience:
- Highlights negative effects of Church
- Darker
- Progression to Experience = logical as both are coexisting states

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Subtitle for Blake’s songs of innocence/experience

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“Two Contrary States of the Human Soul”

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What Blake poem deals with Patriarchy?

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The Sick Rose

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What is Holy Thursday about?

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Ascension day precession of Charity School children to St Paul’s Cathedral

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What were Blake’s responses to poverty?

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Philanthropic response
French Revolution further inspired this: sympathies with poor

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How many prostitutes were there in London?

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50k in 20th century

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Sister poem to The Tyger

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The Lamb:
- Praising God’s creation
- Implying humans have lost ability to appreciate it fully

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What meter is in The Tyger? What effect?

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Trochaic Tetrameter
- Sense of urgency building to last stanza
- Strong, Masculine rhyme
SOME LONGER LINES ARE IAMBIC - EMPHASIS

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What engraving accompanied Holy Thursday (Experience)

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  • Woman looking to dead child
  • Bare trees
  • Children suffering
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Holy Thursday (Innocence) Engraving

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Children walking 2by2 led by beadles

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What mythical figure is evoked in The Tyger?

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Prometheus

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Engraving for The Sick Rose

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  • Woman on rose
  • Women resemble petals
  • Thorns
  • Worm at top
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What revolution may have inspired London by Blake?

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French (1789)

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What meter used in London? What effect?

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Iambic tetrameter
- Continuous: more & more
- Physical movement: walking through London

17
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What can the Sick Rose symbolise?

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  • Rose = english rose, corruption of country & gov
  • Rose = virginity: loss of innocence
  • Could suggest disease in London due to widespread prostitution
  • Corruption of the church
18
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Burke & Kant on Sublime:

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  • Burke: evokes terror, but inherent pleasure
  • Kant: Sublime nature comes from this terror. Beauty = temporary understanding, sublime = reason
19
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Wordsworth on sublime:

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  • Typical Romantic approach
  • Mind cannot grasp something = sublime

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