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This 5 page paper discusses Blake's perspective of Heaven and Hell as opposed to the prevailing thoughts of the Christian doctrine of the day. Examples are taken from Blake's text, Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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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. 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. "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 system. In the Christian system of belief, it is the other way around. Good and evil are both active forces which are in constant conflict
with one another. Blake would seem to be stating that good is a very passive state of being, whereas, evil is the active member in society.
Poets and writers during this time have similar feelings of disgust as nature is disregarded, even destroyed for the fulfillment of industrial desires for production
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