Love - created from Mind Map

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Maternal love

The Little Black Boy

A Cradle Song

Nurse's Song

Infant Joy

On Anothers Sorrow

Little Girl Lost

Nurse's Song (Experience)

London

The Chimney Sweep

A Little Boy Lost

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'My mother taught me underneath a tree... She took me on her lap and kissed me.'

'my lovely infant's head' 'my happy child' 'sweet babe'

'Sweet smiles Mother smiles'

'My heart is at rest within my breast'

'The little ones leaped & shouted & laugh'd/ And all the hills ecchoed'

'Sweet joy' 'Pretty joy'

'Can a mother sit and hear,/ An infant groan an infant fear-/ No no never can it be/ Never never can it be'

'How can Lyca sleep/ If her mother weep?'

Little Girl Found

'In his arms he bore/ Her arm'd with sorrow sore'

'My face turns green and pale'

'Your spring & your day, are wasted in play/ And your winter and night in disguise;

'the youthful Harlots curse/ Blasts the new-born Infants'

'They clothed me in the clothes of death,/ And taught me to sing the notes of woe'

'The weeping parents wept in vain:'

'woman as caregiver' Sturrock

'restrictive and negative' Sturrock

'Blake depicts cruelty as natural' Mankowitz

Sexual love

The Sick Rose

The Angel

Ah! Sunflower

The Lilly

The Garden of Love

A Little Girl Lost

To Tirzah

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'crimson joy' 'his dark secret love/ Does thy life destroy'

'The invisible worm'

'I wept both day and night/ And hid from him my hearts delight'

'he came in vain/ For the time of youth was fled/ And grey hairs were on my head'

'the Youth pined away with desire,/ And the pale Virgin shrouded in snow'

'the Lilly white, shall in Love delight,/ Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright'

'Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds,/ And binding with briars my joys and desires'

'a youthful pair,/ Filled with softest care

'his loving look,/ Like the holy book'

'The death of Jesus set me free/ Then what have I to do with thee?'

'Tirzah'= Mythological figure representing sexuality

“Love in its social definition is a negative creed of secretive, joyless forbidding” Wolf Mankowitz

'sexuality, the experience in the bed of crimson joy, is the very centre of the life of the rose.” Wolf Mankowitz

CHALLENGE Sturrock 'women as victims' via sexualised females as villainous (LONDON)

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BLAKE MARRIED BELOW HIS STATUS. THE COUPLE DID NOT HAVE AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE. HE TAUGHT HIS WIFE HOW TO READ AND WRITE.

BLAKE DISLIKES RESTRAINT/FOREBEARANCE/HUMILITY WHICH ARE CHRISTIAN IDEALS

'The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom'

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