William Blake by Federico https://padlet.com/fedealongi2001/awk5et73885f en-us 2018-11-10 14:55:02 UTC 2025-12-05 12:53:00 UTC hello@padlet.com fedealongi2001 https://padlet.com/fedealongi2001/awk5et73885f/wish/302868398 William Blake was born into a family of humble origin in 1757 was deeply aware of political question of his time, a freethinker supported the french revolution ]]> 2018-11-10 14:58:11 UTC https://padlet.com/fedealongi2001/awk5et73885f/wish/302868398 fedealongi2001 https://padlet.com/fedealongi2001/awk5et73885f/wish/302868457 he had a strong sense of religion and took ispiration from the bible he claimed that have visions died in 1827

]]> 2018-11-10 14:58:41 UTC https://padlet.com/fedealongi2001/awk5et73885f/wish/302868457 fedealongi2001 https://padlet.com/fedealongi2001/awk5et73885f/wish/302868567  and indivdual poet in therms of his technique contemporary of american war of independence and french revolution supported egalitarian values.

]]> 2018-11-10 14:59:46 UTC https://padlet.com/fedealongi2001/awk5et73885f/wish/302868567 fedealongi2001 https://padlet.com/fedealongi2001/awk5et73885f/wish/302868658 explore the struggle between the role of law and reason and also love and imagination 

]]> 2018-11-10 15:00:31 UTC https://padlet.com/fedealongi2001/awk5et73885f/wish/302868658 fedealongi2001 https://padlet.com/fedealongi2001/awk5et73885f/wish/302868722 he used symbols to avoid realism because is the real world that prevents man from perceiving the greater reality that lies behind him 

]]> 2018-11-10 15:01:02 UTC https://padlet.com/fedealongi2001/awk5et73885f/wish/302868722 fedealongi2001 https://padlet.com/fedealongi2001/awk5et73885f/wish/302868851 Blake wrote some prophetic books like;        marriage of heaven and hell these books express the personal romantic and revolutinary beliefs they were published as printed sheets from engraved plates and contained prose poetry and illustrations ]]> 2018-11-10 15:02:07 UTC https://padlet.com/fedealongi2001/awk5et73885f/wish/302868851 fedealongi2001 https://padlet.com/fedealongi2001/awk5et73885f/wish/302868940 Blake believed in the reality of a spiritual world but believe also that that Christianity was responsible of fragmentation of consciousness of men and the dualism characterising man’s life. So he had a vision made of complentary opposites; Good and evil, male and female, reason and imagination, cruelty and kindness  

]]> 2018-11-10 15:02:51 UTC https://padlet.com/fedealongi2001/awk5et73885f/wish/302868940 fedealongi2001 https://padlet.com/fedealongi2001/awk5et73885f/wish/302869062 He stated that; without contraries there is no progression 
The possibility of progress is situated in the tension between contraries.

 
]]> 2018-11-10 15:03:56 UTC https://padlet.com/fedealongi2001/awk5et73885f/wish/302869062 fedealongi2001 https://padlet.com/fedealongi2001/awk5et73885f/wish/302869155 The two states coexist; the creator can be at the same time god of love and innocence and god of energy and violence 

]]> 2018-11-10 15:04:50 UTC https://padlet.com/fedealongi2001/awk5et73885f/wish/302869155 fedealongi2001 https://padlet.com/fedealongi2001/awk5et73885f/wish/302869259 Blake considered imagination as the means trough which man can know the world. He did not believe in materialistic philosophy but in the faith and intuition infact for him faith and intuition were  the only source of true knowledge the internal mind built the external world that man see 

]]> 2018-11-10 15:05:38 UTC https://padlet.com/fedealongi2001/awk5et73885f/wish/302869259 fedealongi2001 https://padlet.com/fedealongi2001/awk5et73885f/wish/302869391 The poet was considered as a prophet, that trough his eyes can see deeply into reality and warm men about evil of society 

]]> 2018-11-10 15:06:57 UTC https://padlet.com/fedealongi2001/awk5et73885f/wish/302869391 Song of innocence and song of experience; fedealongi2001 https://padlet.com/fedealongi2001/awk5et73885f/wish/302869440 the collection of short lyrical verses of song of innocence and song of experience accessible of Blake’s work. The first one was written in a pastoral mode with simple imagery it deals with childhood and innocence the second one was more complex and pessimistic. The world of innocence is full of joy, and happiness. The world of experience is full of cruelty and injustice. 

]]> 2018-11-10 15:07:25 UTC https://padlet.com/fedealongi2001/awk5et73885f/wish/302869440 fedealongi2001 https://padlet.com/fedealongi2001/awk5et73885f/wish/302869614 Blake use complex symbolism; his language and syntax are simple and use also a simple anglo-saxon vocabulary and use also refrains and repetition, which are typical of ballad and children’s songs. To him a lamb, or a tiger or a chimney sweeper or a London street are visions they were never be taken as their real value For example;

Children- represent innocence 

Father- represent experience 

Christ- represent higher innocence 

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