INFORMATIONAL ESSAY My favorite voice actor and singer is Blake Swift. Blake swift was an average guy who started to like voice actors as a kid. He had started to imitate cartoon characters from his favorite shows. A couple of years later Blake had started to train for a voice acting audition for a cartoon song intro for a show called Pokemon.
In his poems Blake uses imagery and diction to contrast how children meet adversity with naive hope while adults meet adversity with delusion and denial. In the 1789 version of “Chimney Sweeper,” Blake describes the situation through the eyes of a child. He invokes sympathy from the reader by creating images of a poor young boy slaving away and sleeping in “soot” (Blake 4). To show how the boys are mistreated, Blake dehumanizes one boy by comparing him to an animal. The comparison of the boy to a “lamb” being shaved also indicates that the boy’s innocence has been violated because of the inhumanity he endures (Blake 6).
William Blake is an author that is especially recognized for his dramatic monologues. William Blake was a child that saw things no one else saw, his mother and father practice mystical magic. He also began to see God and a tree full of angels, something that the regular person would not see. William Blake parents felt that he was gifted with mystical visions. William Blake began to study at the Royal Academy which did not last long.
Blake’s intrigue in the destabilization of corrupt, systematic orthodoxies comes to life in the French Revolution as the people deconstruct the tyrannic leadership of the established kingdom, resembling his poetry as they favor the importance of man’s humanist impulses rather than those of the monarchy. To Blake, the French Revolution represented an event in which the population reflected his beliefs as they defied established, authoritative vices in pursuit of a focus on the common man rather than a monarchical ruler who claimed divine appointment from God. Blake, according to author Anthony Blunt, “[favored] a war between a free nation and a tyranny” (101), implying his allegiance to the common population early on in his lifetime as opposed
In “The Chimney Sweeper[s],” both settings begin gloomy. The first poem begins with “when my mother died I was very young and my father sold me,” (1-2) while the second begins out as “little black thing among the snow crying ‘’weep,’ ’weep,’ ’weep,’ in notes of woe” (1-2). These settings portray a feeling of
William Blake: The Spirit Falcon William Blake is one of history’s greatest poets. Many however, are unfamiliar with his work and what drove him to write the way he did. William Blake’s interesting life molded him into one of the greatest poets of all time. William Blake was born in London in 1757 (William 1).
Crystal Nicole Lujan Professor Patterson English IV DC 4th 28 April 2015 Unconventional Views William Blake once said “He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence” (Blake Marriage 151). This quote was not just a saying for Blake, but rather a way of life for him. Blake had several beliefs that were uncommon for the time period in which he lived and went against the mindset of the majority of people; however, he always spoke his mind. William Blake was an outspoken individual who believed it was necessary to speak out against what was wrong in society.
The topic that brought me the most interest would have to be William Blake. Now, he is known as a well-known poet, but he was not always famous for his works. William was a poet during the Romantic period/ movement that lasted from 1798-1870 (lecture). The romantic period/ movement was not the countries of the romance languages, but mostly seen in England and Germany (romanticism). The romantic period was also known as the “age of revolutions”, and this revolutionary energy was the core of Romantics (Romanticism).
The dangers and widespread injustice of the chimney sweeping profession caught William Blake’s attention, causing him to compose two similar works titled, ‘The Chimney Sweep.’ The first belonged to the book ‘Songs of Innocence’ published 1789 and the second, to ‘Songs of Innocence and Experience’ published in 1793. Both poems show the joys of childhood innocence as the main subject. It highlights how childhood innocence was destroyed, taken away or ruined by adults. Blake saw innocence as a joke.
“The Tyger” is a vessel for Blake to question the morality of God. The narrator of the poem, supposedly Blake himself, begins by asking the tiger, “What immortal hand or eye,/Could frame thy fearful symmetry?” (Blake 3-4).
The dangers and widespread injustice of the chimney sweeping profession caught William Blake’s attention, causing him to compose two similar works titled, ‘The Chimney Sweep.’ The first belonged to the book ‘Songs of Innocence’ published in the year 1789 and the second, to ‘Songs of Innocence and Experience’ published just four years after; 1793. Both poems show the joys of childhood innocence as the main subject. It highlights how childhood innocence was destroyed, taken away or ruined by adults. Blake saw innocence as a joke.
In his poem, “Chimney Sweeper” (from the Songs of Innocence), William Blake portrays 18th century England as a place of injustice and brutality through the eyes of an innocent chimney sweep. While the pure boy who narrates the poem does not realize the harsh realities of his life, Blake nonetheless manages to convey the desolate landscape which he was raised in with clarity. Through his use of a first person perspective, the metaphor of innocence and corruption, and an unreliable narrator, Blake establishes a stark contrast between the child’s innocent perspective and the iniquitous world which surrounds him in order to expose the immorality of child exploitation and labor. In order to fully understand “Chimney Sweeper,” one must first establish the historical framework of life in 18th century England as it would have been experienced by a chimney sweep.
Thankfully, though, these children had the comfort of religion when confronted with the possibility of death. William Blake, seeing the problem with this, uses his skills with words to show the injustice and inequality of child labor in his time through the use of his satirical ballad “The Chimney Sweeper.” The possibility of an early death was a threat at all times to the “diligent little workers,” and it would not be too far of a stretch to say that this thought haunted their naive minds. “As Time was a-sleeping he had such a sight!
William Blake and William Wordsworth both present views of the obtaining, losing and regaining of innocence within their work. From Blake’s perspective, ‘Chimney Sweeper’ reflects the belief that it is possible to regain innocence once it has been lost, hence appearing in Songs on Innocence by taking away a child’s innocence through trials on this earth, returning it to him in death. Whereas, Songs of Experience the sweeper is aware of the idea that the church and king manipulate people causing him to criticise religion, just like Blake criticises religion for being the root of the problem. On the other hand, Wordsworth reveals his reflections of innocence through ‘Anecdotes for Fathers’. ‘Chimney Sweeper’, is a poem that first appeared in
In “The Chimney Sweeper”, the little boy imagines: And by came an Angel who had a bright key, And he open’d the coffins & set them all free; Then down a green plain, leaping, laughing they run, And wash in a river and shine in the Sun
