Critics

Question 1

Critic for Blake’s “The Human Abstract”? (Same Bloom guy)

Answer 1

Bloom notes that the two final stanzas in The Human Abstract poem rely upon the imagery found in Norse mythology

Question 2

According to Bloom, the raven in The Human Abstract is…

Answer 2

Is Odin’s (from Greek mythology, a god representative of death) emblem. Bloom states that the raven is “a devourer” that “nests within the tree, waiting to consume the PROLIFIC of man’s desires”

Question 3

Critic for “The Tyger”?

Answer 3

Critic Karzin states that Blake’s “The Tyger” poem is “one of his most famous poems”

Question 4

Critic for “The Tyger”? (Second comment..)

Answer 4

Karzin states that “The Tyger” is “the most ANTHOLOGIZED poems in English”

Question 5

Critics for “A Posion Tree” suggest that ..

Answer 5

The apple in “The Poison Tree” symbolizes Blake’s CREATIVE WORK which another of his CONTEMPORARIES may have stolen and used as his own”

Question 6

Critic for “Nurse’s Song” The freely playing children…

Answer 6

Critic CM Boura says that the freely playing children on the green is emblematic of “The CAREFREE PLAY OF THE IMAGINATION” when it is not “SPOILED BY SENSELESS RESTRICTIONS”

Question 7

Critic for both the Nurses’ Songs states that…

Answer 7

In both “The Nurse’s Song” of Innocence and Experience shows how “DESTRUCTIVE FORCES “ replace “CHILDLIKE INNOCENCE”

Question 8

Critic for “The Sick Rose”? (Pardon the pun…)

Answer 8

Harold Bloom stated that “The Sick Rose” was one of Blake’s “gnomic triumphs”