ENGL 1F91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The Divine Image, The Chimney Sweeper
27 Jan 2017
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Wednesday, 25, 2017: songs of innocence and experience by william blake. Collection of poems written and illustrated by willian blake. Divided into two songs of innocence and songs of experience, two contrary states of the human soul. The book was illustrated by engravings drawn by. Blake himself: minituaristic art not big canvases. Through this he challenges the popular preconceived idea that such work as women"s art: blake reviving what people understood to be suitable literature for children. Many of his work read like lullaby"s. Lullaby"s would have been seem as something that women would have sung to their kid"s in the nursery. Male poet who is using poems that evoke nursing and childhood, interesting in terms of gender. Unity, question being answer, as as we move to the songs of experience and adulthood, question are not being answer. Child identical to the lamb, a symbol of jesus christ in christianity.
