Conversations in Poems
Conversations in Poems
Reading-
William Blake-
“All Religions Are One”
“There Is No Natural Religion”
Songs of Innocence
Songs of Experience
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
William Wordsworth-
“Lyrical Ballads”
“I wandered lonely as a cloud”
“Ode: Intimations of Immortality”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge-
“Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
“Kubla Khan”
“Dejection: An Ode”
“To William Wordsworth”
Reading the introductions for Wordsworth and Coleridge, we learn that they were close friends. Considering their relationship and the sections from the textbook for the week, what connections can you draw between the works of the two poets?
Just as Wordsworth and Coleridge seem to be enacting a dialogue in their work, William Blake uses similar dialectic techniques in his poetry. In other words, when reading the work of Blake, you might have noticed something of a “call/response” relationship between some poems. For example, “The Lamb” and “The Tyger” are usually considered companions (connected by language/rhetoric, point of view, intention, and use of metaphor and other literary devices), as well as the poems in each section that share the title “The Chimney Sweeper,” “Infant Joy,” and “Infant Sorrow”.
Discuss the differences between the works in Songs of Innocence and Experience. Think in terms of images. How are images of nature used? How are more industrial objects used?
Beyond the two collections (Songs of Innocence and Experience), The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is usually considered the final work of a trilogy. How might that collection connect to Songs of Innocence and Experience?
Your initial post should be at least 500 words in length. Support your claims with examples from required material(s) and scholarly resources, and properly cite any references.
References
Greenblatt, S. et.al. (Eds.). (2012). The Norton anthology of English literature (9th ed., Vol.2). New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
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A comparison between the songs of innocence and the songs of experience by William Blake shows some striking differences despite the fact that they were written by the same author. Although images of nature are used in both a lot of imagery on nature used in the songs of innocence shows a difference from the songs of experience. The poems in the songs of experience seem to utilize a lot of imagery and vivid description and therefore characterized by long sentences, and they all bring out a mood of joy and optimism. On the other hand, the images…………
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