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Discuss Blake’s use of auditory imagery in the poems, and cite one example.
Blake’s work shows a constant awareness of
the ironies of publishing “songs” in written form—publishing poems
that lay claim to an oral culture in a series of elaborately visual
engravings. This awareness reflects the general Romantic preoccupation
with the possibility of capturing in writing the rhythms, immediacy,
and spontaneity of the spoken human voice. Blake seems, if not pessimistic,
at least dubious about such a possibility, as can be seen in his
Introduction to
Comment on Blake as a social critic.
Blake wrote in an era of great social and
political upheaval. The democratic ideals of the
What were (and are) the effects of Blake’s mode of publishing his poems with handcrafted colored engravings?
Blake is somewhat misnamed as a poet; he
is perhaps better called a craftsman or artisan, and is widely studied
and valued as a visual artist. To be understood fully his poems
must be considered as material artifacts. The color and composition
of surrounding images can deeply change our stance on a poem. (You
might find an edition of Blake containing his images in color and
test out this hypothesis on
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