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Similarities
- "he totally transforms a whole genre from within: Inscribing revolution into convention"
- "he shows by using familiar forms, that the world doesn't have to be shaken to pieces in order to change for better"
- "he shows how rotten the system is by exposing its abuses"
- "the more radical views of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's treatise on education, which really valued childhood and play, as opposed to force-fed indoctrination by adults"
- "victimisation is seen in its full horror by being set against what could be a radiant alternative"
- The conservative tradition: Isaac Watt's
- 'A source of Radical Ideas: Rousseau's Emile' = "Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains"
- "Childhood is to be valued and treasured: not wasted or ruined by indoctrination which is often worldly, dogmatic and even potentially harmful."
- "No original sin. Nothing in Nature that is evil, therefore nothing in children. Evil comes from adults, and it is socially produced"
- "Leave a child to learn from experience. Nature protects"
- However; "The only things you should guard against are those which they cant do on their own" "That could be a sign of budding capriciousness, and you need to distinguish between that and the superabundance of high spirits that is so natural to childhood"
- "Let children have freedom"
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Differences
- Isaac Watt's Divine and Moral Songs for children;
- God is always watching you; children are not innocent by nature, you are sinful descendants of Adam and Eve, which Blake rebels against. "Evil shall smite the wicked dead"
- Don't speak unless you are spoken to; "learn to fear the Lord" instils fear into children.
- Keep busy every minute of every single day. God hates idleness; you have been chosen by God not to be poor, "Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do" from Divine Songs for Children. "how doth the little busy bee improve each shining hour, and gather honey all the day" no individualism and making children into future economic assets.
- Formalin structure to Watt's poems like Blake's (Nurses Songs), same quatrains, "Come, children, learn to fear the Lord" heavily stressed trochaic trimester effect of this is a slow and heavy rhyme scheme but Blake's is lighter and free anapaestic.
- Isaac Watt's wanted children to be obedient and to feel fear and guilt, frightened if they don't behave.
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