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This 5 page paper gives a detailed summary of the Argument section in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake. Themes, symbolism and messages are exampled. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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bear witness to the turmoil of the day and age, and also to the poets general perspective on the issues of his day.
Romanticism is the term that is generally ascribed to the changing of those prevailing classical attitudes in all the areas, including literature, painting, music, and architecture. If Classical styles
were seen as being typically calm, harmonious, balanced, structured, and rational, then the Romantic period was anything but those things. Romanticism emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative,
the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, and the transcendental. It is to this transcendental end that it can be said that Blake leaned. Composed between 1790 and 1793,
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell attacks the sexual and social morality that, backed by the apparatus of religion and law, restrains energy, passion, and genius and, in Blakes opinion,
condemns us to the spectral half-existence that is our common lot. For example, it would seem that he has pitted two associations
against one another in a classic battle. However, what is interesting to note is that the Angels are not necessarily the heroes of the tale. After too much reading,
one can tell that the Angels of Heaven are stoic, devoid of emotion, limited, and conformity. Blake, himself, makes an appearance as, ironically enough, one of the Devils, which are
depicted as wildly creative and the polar opposite of the boring Angels. "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, in Plate Three, Blake seems to
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