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Poems by Blake (William Blake)

CBSE · Class 12 · English

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1. William Blake: Poet and Visionary Artist

  • William Blake was a poet, painter, and engraver.
  • He abhorred the rationalism and materialism of his times.
  • His poetry presents human beings as beset with evil yet striving for the divine within them.
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2. Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

  • Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience represent two contrary states of the human soul.
  • The Divine Image is taken from Songs of Innocence.
  • The Human Abstract is taken from Songs of Experience.
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3. The Divine Image: Humanising the Virtues

  • The poem presents Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love as human-like virtues.
  • These virtues are identified with God the father and with Man his child.
  • Each virtue is given a bodily form: Mercy has a human heart, Pity a human face, Love the human form divine, and Peace the human dress.
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4. The Human Abstract: Distortion of Virtues

  • The poem questions whether Pity and Mercy can exist without suffering and inequality.
  • Pity depends on the existence of poverty.
  • Mercy depends on others not being as happy as we.

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Blake was a poetThese two volumes represent two contraryThis poem presents MercyThis poem shows how virtues canIn The Human Abstract

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