The Human Abstract (Songs of experience) Flashcards
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Organised Religion and Suffering
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- Blake explains the danger of religious ideas regarding good and bad.
- Allegory (story of a tutois and the hare)
- Good and evil creating by humans, the tree hasnt appeared anywhere, apart from people minds.
- Humands decide what is virtuous
- Humans dieas on morality arent real, like grass and mountain are real.
- ‘no more’ ‘Mercy no more’ : Repetition, emphasise, demonstrate same concept.
- ‘more, make, mercy’ Alliteration, accentuates
- ‘selfish loves increase’ ‘knits a snare’; Sibiliance, cunningness, snake, deceit. church exploits people.
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Summary
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- Suffering created by strict moral rules.
- bad virtues only created by the other virtues humans have created. E.g, no need for pitty if humans hadnt created poverty.
- Man sits down, spills tears on the ground, Religious modesty spread roots benearth him.
- Tree grows fruit, appears healthy, Ravon built next in dark corner.
- Gods searched for three, in the human brain.
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Humanity and the power of Ideas
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- Human beings live in a reality of thier own construction.
- Single idea root into a tree, through whole of humanity.
- Human brain, stop their own suffering
- Humility involves submitting to God, ‘Humility takes its root/underneath 9crueltys) foot’; Organized religion wants people to submit to them, power, power inbalance,
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‘Gods of the earth and sea’
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- Nature has divinity.
- Blake spiritual writer, not arguing ethical world. Against religious institutions.
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The Raven
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- Evil and death,
- ‘shade’ leaves people oblivious, ignonrant.
- Virtuis are illusions,
- ‘nest’ evil already found a home.
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Personification
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- Personifies ‘cruelty’ as a male figure who acquires authority, influence by ‘snaring’ others with religious ‘baits’
- Personification reminder that evil is a product of the human brain.
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Alliteration
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- Lyrical, powerful, emotional charge
- ‘Cruelty’ and the ‘care’
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