Archetypes Of William Blake Research Paper

Emotional Much?

(Critique of Blake’s Archetypes) Archetypes are plot patterns, character types, or ideas with emotional power and widespread appeal. According to Kenneth Muir, “it is impossible to consider Blake’s poetry in isolation from his work as an artist and from his social and political ideas.” Not only was William Blake a really good author because of his interesting way of coming about ideas, but he was also a good author because of the techniques he used in his texts. Both the poems The Lamb and The Chimney Sweeper are included in Blake’s Songs of Innocence, while The Tyger and Infant Sorrow are included in his Songs of Experience. William Blake used archetypes in all four of his poems: The Lamb, The Tyger, The Chimney Sweeper, and Infant Sorrow. First of all, Blake used archetypes in his poem, The Lamb by describing the lamb in detail. Throughout the poem, he explained a lot of details about lambs, but he only used good references. There are some people who believe that sheep have absolutely no good qualities, but Blake only talked about the positive side of things. For example, lines 6-8 of the poem he said, “Softest clothing wooly bright; gave

There are times when an archetype might be a setting, and in this case it was a very emotional one. His point was to create a pretty emotional mood in the poem, because of how bad being a chimney sweeper was. There were children who were sold off to people so that they could do their dirty work. On lines 3 and 4 of the poem, Blake explained, “Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep.” It was a really emotional mood when those lines were referenced in the poem, because not only was it a very dirty job, but it was also very dangerous for the children who got sold into that workforce. There are many reasons to how Chimney Sweeper by William Blake has