Blake Critics Flashcards
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DECEPTION
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- Blake is against everything that submits, mortifies, constricts and denies = Kazin
- The tree of knowledge in Eden bore = Bottrall
- In Blake’s mind the child’s nature is beyond the parent’s comprehension, and is alone in a world the parents cannot enter = Kazin (infant sorrow)
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DESIRE
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- Blake is against everything that submits, mortifies, constricts and denies = Kazin
- Blake’s poems serve to damn those institutions which, by their advocacy of this rationality p, sought to stifle divine energy with oppressive morality
- Blake’s most radical statement about sexuality, in direct defiance of the orthodox doctrine = Barfoot (sexual desire)
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INNOCENCE
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- Blake is against everything that submits, mortifies, constricts and denies = Kazin
- Blake’s poems serve to damn those institutions which by their advocacy of this rationality, sought to stifle divine energy with oppressive morality = Vines
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RESTRICTIONS
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- Blake is against everything that submits, mortifies, restricts and denies = Kazin
- Blake’s writings endeavour to loosen or break societies mind forged manacles = Vines
- Blake saw both religious and social laws as being unjust, frustrating and poverting energy and desire = Willmott
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RELIGION
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- Blake saw both religious and social laws as being unjust, frustrating and poverting energy and desire = Willmott
- Blake is against everything that submits, mortifies, constricts and denies = Kazin
- Blake’s poems serve to damn those institutions which, by their advocacy sought to stifle divine energy with oppressive morality
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DEFIANCE
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- Blake is against everything that submits, mortifies, constricts and denies = Kazin
- Blake’s poems serve to damn those institutions which by their advocacy of this rationality sought to stifle divine energy with oppressive morality = Vines
- Blake’s most radical statement about sexuality, in direct defiance of orthodox Christian doctrine = Barfoot
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POWER/CONTROL
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- Blake saw both religious and social laws as being unjust, frustrating and poverting energy and desire = Willmott
- Power has become important and power tends to relate victims
- Blake shows the evil practices in society against children = Jain
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CORRUPTION
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- Blake is against everything that submits, mortifies, constricts and denies = Kazin
- Blake’s poems serve to damn those institutions which by their advocacy of this rationality sought to stifle divine energy with oppressive morality
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INJUSTICE
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- Blake was a man acutely aware of social injustice = Tomlinson
- putting children to work in an unsafe environment unfairly ages their souls and warps their individual thinking = McClard
- Blake is against everything that submits, mortifies, constricts and denies = Kazin
- In the face of these social wrongs, the complacency of the church clearly seemed unforgivable to Blake = Willmott
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MANIPULATION
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- Blake is against everything that submits, mortifies, constricts and denies = Kazin
- Blake’s poems serve to damn those institutions which by their advocacy of rationality sought to stifle divine energy with oppressive morality = Vines
- Blake saw both religious and social laws as being unjust, frustrating and poverting energy and desire
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INSTITUTIONS
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- Blake’s poems serve to damn those institutions which by their advocacy of rationality sought to stifle divine energy with oppressive morality = Vines
- Blake saw both religious and social laws as being unjust, frustrating and poverting energy and desire = Willmott
- Blake is against everything that submits, mortifies, constricts and denies = Kazin
