William Blake Beliefs

William Blake was born in London on November 28, 1757. He was born during a time when Romanticism was emerging as well as when the Industrial Revolution was developing. During his lifetime he was unrecognized as an English poet. However, he is now considered to be a significant literary figure in poetry and visual arts. At age ten, Blake wanted to become a painter, so his parents sent him to drawing school. Not many years later Blake began to write poetry. His poems were protests against war, tyrants, and King George III’s treatment of the American colonies. He lived during a time of social and political change that influenced his writing. Through images of divinity, hope, and spirituality, William Blake illustrates his religious faith in a

A jealous and oppressive God emerges from Blake’s experiences as indicated in the line “Terror, the human form divine” displaying that the god that appears in human form that is not loving rather the jealous and oppressive God. When someone thinks of the word divine they connect the word with God, ironically Blake is writing about humans. In the second stanza “the human dress, is forged Iron… human form, a fiery forge…” Blake in this line shows that humans hide, they dress up their secrets, put a face, and carefully select the people they believe they trust to protect themselves. Blake uses juxtaposition his title is “A Divine Image” meanwhile in this line he is saying a fiery forge, juxtaposing images of hell with heaven. The last line of the poem “The human heart its hungry Gorge”, gorge means deep, deep valley Blake describes this as the heart being a deep valley that needs to be filled with love and when it is failed to be filled with love people turn to other things to achieve this feeling for example people turn to drugs, sex, and even become criminals to feed the emptiness. Blake testifies that people are greedy, they are always craving more and nothing is ever good enough. Throughout his life Blake believed in the importance and power of visions, as his friend George Richmond stated.(Green,The English Review 15.1). In a novel called, The Life of William Blake by Alexander Gilchrist, Gilchrist

However, it means that the sunflowers dream is deteriorated and, its hope is lost. This line could also be interpreted as a young women wasting her youth Bonilla 4 and dying young. Blake’s last two lines of the poem shows that there is hope, every season the sunflowers bloom this shows their determination to aspire, not to another life but beauty of heaven as a finish. The two stanzas are different tones the first contains images of happiness of a sunflower meanwhile the second stanza contrasts with dark images such as snow and grave. For the fifty poems in the Songs of Innocence and of Experience about twenty of them were written about children. However, a few were about a child that has been lost but found. In “The Little Boy Lost” Blake has the little boy followed by a vapor, for which the child believes it is his father. There is a hint that the child has been misled by something Blake calls Spectre, or an apparition. To Blake the innocent, experience of false and true has the same figure (Bronowski, 157). In the poem “The Little Boy Lost”, Blake shows the evil in society: "Father, father, where are you going?

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