Style & Form Flashcards
How does he define ‘fable or allegory”?
As a totally inferior kind of poetry
Blake’s use of the bardic figure of the singing poetic voice corresponds with ancient cultures and…
MYTHOLOGIES which predate the Bible.
Blake’s poetic forms, are partly sourced from…
NARRATIVE, ORAL FORMS.
His songs were based on what kind of form?
What kind of primitivism?
LYRICAL form.
-Part of a LITERARY PRIMITIVISM.
Blake’s songs in their lyric forms oppose the SCRIPTURAL AUTHORITY of what book?
The Bible.
What is the Gothic?
A GENRE or MODE of literature that COMBINES FICTION, HORROR and ROMANTICISM.
In Blake’s wiring, the allegorical is a negative term. Why?
The allegorical is a negative term in Blake’s rhetoric because it is ASSOCIATED with MASQUERADING the ABSOLUTE truth.
