Blake Quotes

Question 1

Power and Control

Answer 1

1) “The little ones spend the day in sighing and dismay” -The Schoolboy
2) “In trembling zeal he seized his hair” - A little boy lost
3) “And their sun does never shine” - Holy Thursday (experience)

Question 2

Deception and Disguise

Answer 2

1) “Grey-headed beadles walked Bedford with wands as white as snow” - Holy Thursday (innocence)
2) “He led him by his little coat and all admired his priestly care” - A little boy lost
3) “O’ it drives all joy away!” - The Schoolboy

Question 3

Injustice

Answer 3

1) “Marks in every face I meet, marks of weakness, marks of woe” - London
2) “They clothed me in the clothes of death” - The Chimney Sweeper (experience)
3) “And burned him in a holy place where many had been burned before” - A little boy lost

Question 4

Institutions

Answer 4

1) “And the gates of the chapel were shut” - The Garden of Love
2) “the church is cold but the ale house is healthy and pleasant and warm” - The little vagabond
3) “How can the bird that is born for joy sit in a cage and sing” - The Schoolboy

Question 5

Restrictions

Answer 5

1) “The little spend the day in sighing and dismay” - The Schoolboy
2) “And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds, and binding with briars my joys and desires” - The Garden of Love
3) “mind forged manacles” - London

Question 6

Corruption

Answer 6

1) “They clothed me in the clothes of death” - The Chimney Sweeper (experience)
2) “We’d be as happy as birds in the spring” - The Little Vagabond
3) “A mark in every face I meet, marks of weakness, marks of woe” - London

Question 7

Religion

Answer 7

1) “The children walking two by two” - Holy Thursday (innocence)
2) “And I saw it filled with graves and tombstones where flowers should be” - The Garden of Love
3) “They stripped him to his little shirt and bound him in an iron chain” - A little boy lost

Question 8

Desire

Answer 8

1) “And hid form him my hearts delight” - The Angel
2) “It grew both day and night till it bore an apple bright” - A poison tree
3) “And his dark secret love does thy life destroy” - A Sick Rose

Question 9

Manipulation

Answer 9

1) “And all admired his priestly care” - A little boy lost
2) “So your chimneys I sweep and in soot I sleep” - The Chimney Sweeper (innocence)
3) “Mind forged manacles” - London

Question 10

Defiance

Answer 10

1) “in every cry of every man” -London
2) “they stripped him to his little shirt and bound him in an iron chain” -A little boy lost
3) “thou shalt not writ over the door” -The Garden of love
4) “I dried my tears and armed my fears with ten thousand shields and spears” - The Angel