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Blake AO3
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- 1C. M. BOWRA"...the restrictions which imprison and kill the living spirit"
- 2ROSSEAU1. "Man was born free but he is everywhere in chains"
2. "Children are born innocent and are later corrupted by society"
-Counteracted by the established Church who believed children were born evil and the 'good' had to be reeled out of them as they grew up - 3WOLF MANKOWITZ1. "This [infant sorrow] is the birth of a representative citizen of Blake's London. It is already in the process of forging its on mental manacles"
2. "Georgian society forced love to be a secret; joyless and forbidding" - 4BRITISH LIBRARY WEBSITE"...many of the poems in 'Songs of Innocence and Experience' contain unsettling ambiguities"
- 5OCR BOOKLET"The God, Urizen, is seen in many of Blake's poems - he is a satanic force, imposing the 10 commandments"
-Garden of Love: 'thou shalt not', 'binding with briars my joys and desires' - 6MARY WOLSTONECRAFT1. "Marriage is usually considered the grave and not the cradle of love"
2. "Marriage can become a form of legalised prostitution"
-The marriage 'spells of law' bind a woman to a man in a similar way a slave is bound to their master - 7MARX"Religion is the optimum of the masses" - distorts reality
-Garden of Love: 'thou shalt not'
-Holy Thursday (Inn)
-Holy Thursday (Exp): 'Is this a holy thing to see?', 'land of poverty', 'babes reduced to misery', 'thundering the seats of heaven among' = emotive language - 8GLICHTISTS"Blake's 'experience' poems clog the retina and dams the imagination"
- 9ACKROYD"Never mind it" - attitudes in 18th Century
- 10AN EXTRACT FROM 'THE POETRY FOUNDATION'"Sexual energy is not an inherent 'evil', but the repression of that energy is"
- My Pretty Rose Tree
-Garden of Love
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- A-Level English A2 Flashcards on Blake AO3, created by Hannah Saks on 14/06/2016.
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