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This 3 page paper compares and contrasts the themes and styles of Wordsworth, Blake and Whitman. Examples given. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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human nature, or it is the ability to gain great truths from seeming insignificant items, poets often display insights that both disarm and inspire. William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Walt
Whitman: Three rebels. Three philosophers. Three poets. Of the three poets mentioned, it should perhaps be noted that each lived in a different period of time. However, what is interesting
to note is that regardless of time period all three had striking similarities. Each were deeply spiritually minded. For example, Walt Whitmans, Songs of Myself, indicate, among many things, a
message of hope, and of pride in ones country. Wordsworths The Sun Has Long Been Set(Favorite Poems) suggests that all that glitters is not gold, while Blakes Heaven and Hell
suggest that there is good and evil in everyone. William Blake is generally considered to be one of the earlier poets of the Romantic Era. His epic poem, The
Marriage of Heaven and Hell, bear witness to the turmoil of the day and age, and also to the poets general perspective on the issues of his day. One of
those issues would include the poets vision of good and evil in the world. This, however, differs, from the teachings of the Judeo-Christian tradition, of which he presumably was a
part. He and the Church had a love/hate relationship, to be certain. "Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy," states Blake in his poem. In other words, reason
is simply a perception of truth and can be changed at will. In fact, Blake seems to put forth his own definitions of good and evil in that good is
a passive slave to a persons own reasoning, whereas, evil is an active work that springs from energy. This, is, of course, contrary to the view of the Christian belief
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