Blake
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- Blake
- Blake's view on the innocence of childhood were in the minority - Believed everyone is born innocent
- Theme from Experience often infiltrate Innocence
- Romanticist: Blake and The Romanticists, imagination was a state of pure moral appreciation of beauty.
- Innocence is often represented as the state of childhood.
- In Experience their state, whether this is happiness, restriction, fear or sorrow is enforced by authority figures, such as parents.
- Blake uses the experience of children throughout Experience to demonstrate control in society and the devastating effect this can have on the innocent.
- Blake's critique explores the effect that controlling institutions such as the church and the state have on society.
- Blake uses the experience of children throughout Experience to demonstrate control in society and the devastating effect this can have on the innocent.
- In Experience their state, whether this is happiness, restriction, fear or sorrow is enforced by authority figures, such as parents.
- Blake's wife Catherine Boucher was unable to give her husband a child - which is possibly the reason for the abundance of child figures that feature in Songs of Innocence and of Experience
- Industrial Revolution
- Children worked in harsh conditions and the majority of factory owners did little to protect these children.
- Life in industrial towns had really poor standards of living.
- Blake grew up whilst the industrial revolution was taking over the domestic system.
- He believed that the children should be able to flourish. Blake DID NOT agree with the harsh treatment of childrenin these factories.
- Blake witnessed children as young as 5 being forced to work, the ill lining the streets and revolting living conditions with huge families crammed into them.
- The poem London was written during the French Revolution - Blake alludes to the revolution in London,arguably suggesting that the experience of living there could encourage a revolution on the streets of the capital.
- Isaac Watt's Divine songs for children acted as cautionary tales to induce fear in children to ensure good behaviour.
- Blake argued against society's expectations of children.
- Blake was a NON-CONFORMIST
- He believed in a DIRECT relationship with God, rather than one mediated by priests.
- It was the institutionalised religion, used to control and restrict, that he DISAGREED with.
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- Man's perceptions are not bound by organs of perception; he perceives more than sense can discover.
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