Themes in Blake Flashcards

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What are the main themes running through Blake’s poetry?

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  • Religion
  • Oppression
  • Adults/Authority Figures
  • Children/Childhood Innocence
  • Social Reform
  • Love/Sexuality
  • Pastoral/Nature
  • Urban/Misery/Poverty
  • Imagination
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What are the top poems that depict the key theme of Religion?

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  • Holy Thursday (SOI & SOE)
  • The Garden of Love
  • The Little Vagabond
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What are the top poems that depict the key theme of Oppression?

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  • The Little Black Boy
  • The Schoolboy
  • London
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What are the top poems that depict the key theme of Authority Figures?

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  • Nurse’s Song (SOI & SOE)
  • A Little Boy Lost (SOE)
  • The Schoolboy
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What are the top poems that depict the key theme of Childhood Innocence?

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  • The Chimney Sweeper (SOI and SOE)
  • Nurse’s Song (SOI and SOE)
  • Holy Thursday (SOI and SOE)
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What are the top poems that depict the key theme of Social Reform?

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  • London
  • The Little Black Boy
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What are the top poems that depict the key theme of Love/Sexuality?

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  • The Angel
  • My Pretty Rose Tree
    -The Little Girl Lost (SOI) and The Little Girl Found (SOE)
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What are the top poems that depict the key theme of Pastoral/Nature?

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  • The Echoing Green
  • The Little Girl Lost (SOI)
  • The Little Girl Found (SOE)
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What are the top poems that depict the key theme of Poverty/Misery?

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  • London
  • The Garden of Love
  • The Chimney Sweeper (SOI and SOE)
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Poems to Revise in Detail

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  • Holy Thursday (SOI and SOE)
  • The Garden of Love
  • The Little Vagabond
  • The Little Black Boy
  • The Schoolboy
  • London
  • Nurse’s Song (SOI and SOE)
  • A Little Boy Lost (SOE)
  • The Chimney Sweeper (SOI and SOE)
  • The Angel
  • My Pretty Rose Tree
  • The Little Girl Lost (SOI)
  • The Little Girl Found (SOE)
  • The Echoing Green
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