Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
BLAKE - Coggle Diagram
BLAKE
his poetry
early romantic
rejected neoclassical literary style and themes
imp of imagination over reason
means through which man could know the world
divine vision
to see more, beyond material reality, into the life of things
power of visione/power of creating things
god
child
poet
ideal forms should be created from inner vision
style
simple structure
use of symbols
father
christ
child
his verse is linear and rhythmical
repetitions
works
songs of innocence
produced before the outbreak of the french revolution
narrator: shepherd
childhood
songs of experience
appeared during the period of the terror in france
narrator: bard
adulthood
the visual word is complex + pessimistic view of life
prophetic books
the marriage of heaven and hell
visions of the daughters of albion
ameria: a prophecy
europe: a prophecy
artist
prophet
to warn man of evils of society
can see more deeply into reality
guardian of the spirit and immagination
christianity and the curch responsible for
fragmentation of consciousness
dualism of man's life
vision of complementary opposites exist in parallel
witnessed the evil effects of industrial development on man's soul
sympathised with victims of
oppression by institutions
soldiers
orphans
industrial society
prostitutes
children
london, 1757- london, 1827: pre romantic poet