William Blake is a English painter and poet and now recognised as a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and more particularly as impact on the poetry of the Romantic Age. Blake lived in London during his life, he accepted the imagination as "the body of God”, he believed religion didn't need to be forced as God is everywhere, which is why his views on God itself were positive and often related to nature and beauty, yet religion was commonly associated to restriction as he believed ‘we are all brothers because we are all sons of the Father, and all have Jesus in us’ and that ‘I am in God’s presence night and day, And he never turns his face away.’ (From Blake’s poem ‘I rose up at the dawn of day’). This may be why Blake was considered …show more content…
Blake believe that finding God and religion should be naturally through all living things. The harsh view and portrayal of structured religion is shown further on in, "A Little Boy Lost," where the youth is actually burned for his rebellious thinking. The first of the poem informs of the boy's unsuccess in the religious system and how it was not emphatic towards the boy. God is then described in the forest when he appears in the poem, this brought the boy back to the earth, his mother. This showed the worship of God in a natural environment with positive consequences, not forced in ceremonial instruction. The untraditional and rebellious thinking of the boy in the second poem also shows organized religion's predicted harsh reaction. Religion in this setting destroys the boy for trying to reach outside of the accepted normal teachings, this shows the repression of imagination in children which is the down fall in adults. On a whole the poems show progression in Blake's dissatisfaction with organized religion to an bold display of its