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  • Blake States In His Poem
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    Sensation, imagination, and judgment are interrelated in the experience of art. Burke explains how sensation, imagination, and judgment determine the experience of pleasure and pain, and how pleasure and pain are represented by the aesthetic concepts of beauty and sublimity. Burke says that, in order to understand the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful, we must examine the experience of pain and pleasure. Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich has a painting that will leave viewer...
  • Tyger By William Blake Tyger
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    Critical Analysis of "The Tyger" by William Blake Tyger Tyger, burning bright, An epic beginning to an incredible poem. The capitalization of the second Tyger indicates strength and simply a bite that I think has to be maintained in reciting. The alliteration of the hard consonant sounds also capture attention - rarely has this common poetic device worked so well. The Tyger is burning bright - a first reference to fire that is a constant recurring theme in the poem. Blake had been working on a N...
  • Negative View Of London
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    In this essay I will be look at two different poems and what image they make of London, and their views. Wordsworth has written his poem 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge' in a sonnet form, which is usually only used for poems about love, this implies that Wordsworth's poem will be about how much he likes London. Blake has written his poem in quatrain verse, which at the time was the most common type of style for writing poems. Blake describes London as being controlled and restricted, we know t...
  • Blake's Jerusalem
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    Of the true masterpieces in the English language, one of the most metaphysically challenging and eternally relevant is William Blake's Jerusalem. It took Blake four thousand lines etched onto one hundred plates to put his reinterpretation of the prophetic books of the Bible into an English context. The poem shows not only Blake's new understanding of the Old Testament gained from his recent learning of the Hebrew language, but his freedom from the Miltonic tradition. In the preface to Jerusalem ...

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