In the past, both British and American authors published numerous of great poems, plays, sonnets, and novels that have influences our lives many different ways. Those authors’ writing styles changed due to different period of time. Romantic Era, from 1800 and 1850, was the period that authors mainly concentrating on Industrial Revolution, Age of Enlightenment, and nature. One of the Romantic poets, William Blake, was a remarkable poet who impacted countless writers not only during Victorian literature, but also others through ages. Each of William Blake’s works expressed different information about the Romantic Era, which most of his works have the themes of imagination, nature, and emotions. William Blake was born on 28 November 1757 in London. When he was a child, he began experiencing his visions, such as saw God at his window and tree that …show more content…
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is one of the most famous novels he wrote. A Poison Tree, The Lamb, The Little Blake Boy, and the Human Abstract were four major short poems. In A Poison Tree, the poison tree refers to anger, meaning the anger will keep growing “Till it bore an apple bright” (Kinsell, 558). The themes of this poem are Emotion and Anger. People can easily forget their friends, but anger will grow when it happens on their enemies. The anger will eventually grow bigger and bigger till it becomes hate. This poem shows the nature of human beings. In The Human Abstract, Blake discussed about pity, mercy, peace, and love. “Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor; And Mercy no more could be, If all were as happy as we;” (Kinsell, 556) This suggested that pity will only exist if somebody is poor, and mercy will not always be necessary if somebody is happy. This poem involved Christian values. For example, both tree and fruit appeared in this poem that are referring as kingdom of God and Tree of