Blake Quotes

Question 1

RELIGION

Answer 1

• Bound him in an iron chain and burned him in a holy place = Little B Lost
• Fed with cold and usurous hands = H.T innocence
• But if at the church they would give us some ale = Little Vagabond
• Grey-headed beadles walkd before with wands as white as snow = H.T innocence

Question 2

DEFIANCE

Answer 2

• My mother groaned, my father wept: into the dangerous world I leapt + Struggling in my fathers hands/ Striving against swaddling bands = Infant Sorrow
• I dried my tears and armed by fears with ten thousand shields and spears = The Angel
• Thou shalt not writ over the door = Garden of L

Question 3

POWER/CONTROL

Answer 3

• They stripped him to his little shirt and bound him in an iron chain + All admired his priestly care= Little B lost
• Grey-headed beadles walkd before with wands as white as snow = H.T innocence
• They think they have done me no injury, And ate gone to praise God = Chimney S experience

Question 4

INNOCENCE

Answer 4

• They stripped him to his little shirt and bound him in an iron chain = Little B Lost
• Struggling in my father’s hands/ striving against my swaddling bands = Infant sorrow
• Their innocent faces clean + Grey headed beadles walkd before with wands as white as snow = Holy Thursday
• His dark secret love thy life destroy = Sick Rose

Question 5

DESIRE

Answer 5

• Hid from my hearts delight + I dried my tears, and armed my tears with ten thousand shields and spears = Angel
• And I sunned it with smiles and soft deceitful wiles = Poison Tree
• His dark secret love does thy love destroy = The Sick Rose

Question 6

DECEPTION + DISGUISE

Answer 6

• In trembling zeal he seized his hair + all admired his priestly care = Little B L
• Grey headed beadles walkd before with wands as white as snow = Holy Thursday innocence
• the fruit of deceit + ruddy and sweet = Human abstract

Question 7

INJUSTICE

Answer 7

• In trembling zeal he seized his hair + all admired his priestly care + they stripped to his little shirt and bound him in an iron chain = Little Boy Lost
• They think they have done me no injury, And are gone to praise God + they clothed me in clothes of death
• So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep = chimney sweeper innocence
• every blackening church appals, and the hapless soldiers sigh Runs in blood down the palace walls + marks of weakness + marks of woe

Question 8

INSTITUTIONS

Answer 8

• Gates of the chapel were shut An thou shalt. It writ over the door = garden of love
• If buds are nipped + tender plants stripped = Schoolboy
• Every blackening church appals, And the hapless soldiers sigh Runs in blood down palace walls + marks of weakness, marks of woe = London

Question 9

MANIPULATION

Answer 9

• They stripped him to his little shirt, And bound him to an iron chain + All admired his priestly care = Little Boy Lost
• So your chimneys I sweep and in soot I sleep = Chimney sweeper innocence
• The mind forged manacles I hear = London

Question 10

CORRUPTION

Answer 10

• They clothed me in clothes of death = chimney sweeper experience
• In very cry of every man + in every infants cry of fear + the mind forged manacles I hear = London
• The church is cold + modest dame lurch, who is always at church, would not have bandy children nor fasting nor birch = Little Vagabond

Question 11

RESTRICTIONS

Answer 11

• Gates of the Chapel were shut And ‘Thou shalt not’ writ over the door = Garden of Love
• The little ones spend the day in sighing and dismay
• In trembling zeal he seized his hair + All admired his priestly care
• Every blackening church appals, And the hapless soldiers sigh Blood runs down the palace walls