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Allegrini Greta Anna, Cirfeta Marta Maria, De Laurentiis Ludovica, Gigante Laura IIH

WILLIAM BLAKE

The Industrial Revolution

Historical

period

- At the and of the 18th century the English economy started to change from an agricultural to an industrialized one.

- The investiment in tecnological development incrised the innovation.

- The "Mushroom House" were built.

A New Sensibility

A new Sensibi-

lity

- In the second half of the 18th century people's mind started to change.

- A new sensibility was surfing and a new feud was starting.

- The concept of nature started to change.

- Terror and Pain became the strongest emotions of human soul.

- The Sublime was born.

Romanticism

Romanticism

- Romanticism gives expression to emotional expirience and individual feelings.

- Romantic poets could see beyond surface and and discover the truth.

- They gives also voice to the ideals of freedom and beauty.

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN:

Time

ROMANTIC POETS

AUGUSTIAN POETS

Impersonal material, elevated ubjects.

subjective, autobiographical, everyday life, poor, death

SUBJECT

Stay focused!

STYLE

Loud and noble eloquence

Lyrical and personal expression

Intimate, emotional, reflective

TONE

Intellectual

Abstral concepts

AIM

Generalized concept

Real and living baing

VIEW OF NATURE

Established by God, perfect and beautiful

Why the Industrial Revolution started in Britain?

Why in Britain?

The Banks

New Inventions

The "Chimney Sweepers"

The life of William Blake

THE ANCIENT

OF DAYS

NEWTON

Life

-William Blake was born in London 1757

-he become a painter 1778 (he made illustrations for

John Milton and for the Bible)

-Blake’s sense of religion

-the role of painting for him

-his interest in social problems

Blake's works

The Marriage of

Heaven and Hell

Works

-The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

-Visions of the Daughters of Albion

-The book of Urizen

-The tyger

-America: A Prophecy

-Europe: A Prophecy

-Songs of Innocence

-Songs of Experience

Blake expresses his romantic and revolutionary ideals and describes his adventure in hell in the first person, drawing inspiration from Dante's Hell in Divine Comedy and John Milton's Paradise Lost.

Visions of the Daughters of Albion

In this work Blake attacked the conventions of sexual morality, particularly those imposed on women.

We find Oothoon that is brutally raped by Bromion, and subsequently rejected by her would-be lover Theotormon

This work describes Urizen as the "primeaval priest". Los and Enitharmon create a space within Urizen's fallen universe to give birth to their son Orc, the spirit of revolution and freedom.

The book of Urizen

The tyger

Consists entirely of questions about the nature of God and creation. The tiger becomes a symbol for one of religion's most difficult questions: why does God allow evil to exist?

Blake explores the radical paradigms of political repression and revolt through a highly imaginative treatment of the American Revolution.

America: A Prophecy

This work dealt with different aspects of political change.

Europe:

A Prophecy

Songs of Innocence

The narrator is a shepherd who receives inspiration from a child in a cloud to pipe his songs celebrating the divine in all creation. Its symbols are lambs, flowers and children playing on the village green.

Songs of Experience

Blake did not reject the songs of the innocent shepherd, but he created their counterpart in the form of the bard who questions the themes of the previous collection.

Style

Style

- William Blake's poems are caracterized by a simple structure and by the use of symbols.

- The verse is linear and rhytmical, and is common to find repetitions.

Symbols

- Symbols are used to rapresent the innocence, the corruption of the society and the experience.

- William Blake usually use symbols like: children, soliders, harlots, and Christ.

London

The greatest

poem

.

I wander thro’ each charter’d street,

Near where the charter’d Thames does flow,

And mark in every face I meet,

Marks of weakness, marks of woe.

In every cry of every Man,

In every Infant’s cry of fear,

In every voice: in every ban,

The mind-forg’d manacles I hear.

How the Chimney-sweeper’s cry

Every black’ning Church appalls,

And the hapless Soldier’s sigh

Runs in blood down Palace walls.

But most, thro’ midnight streets I hear

How the youthful Harlot’s curse

Blasts the new born Infant’s tear,

And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.

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Our sources of information:

Our sources

- The englis book: Performer Heritage

- The italian book: Con parole alate vol.4

- Wikipedia

- Studenti.it

- Poetryfoundation.org

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