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A seven page paper looking at these two works in terms of the way their respective authors, William Blake and Percy Bysshe Shelley, define love. The paper concludes that although their approaches are very different, both poets seem to feel that love is a great healer, and that seeming opposites can be reconciled through its power. No additional sources.
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out essentially political and sociological problems in epic verse. Rather than simply extolling love, for example, they attempted to dissect it and fit it into a larger ideological context. It
was not enough to love, or describe love; one had to analyze loves role in Romantic philosophy, and come up with some kind of comprehensive statement that described ones ideological
position. Two poets who attempted to do this, with varying degrees of success, were William Blake, in his apocalyptic "Marriage of Heaven and Hell," and Percy Bysshe Shelley, in "Prometheus
Unbound." Blakes "Marriage of Heaven and Hell": A Synopsis William Blakes "Marriage of Heaven and Hell" is actually a poem in the form of a picture book (Blake was
an artist as well as a writer, and during his lifetime was actually better known for his engravings). Consequently, whereas in most poems we can talk about "stanzas" or "verses",
in "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" it is more productive to refer to them as pages, or as a printer would call them, "plates." The early plates indicate
that the poem will be told from the point of view of a persona named Rintrah, who is a prophet. Like many of the prophets of the old testament, Rintrah
is angry, for he looks out at the activities of the people of the world and does not like what he sees. He implies that we have completely misunderstood the
divine revelations we have received so far, because we are determined to separate unities into opposites, and then repress one side while favoring the other. The most common examples are
good and evil, which he defines for us: "Good is the passive that obeys Reason. Evil is the active springing from energy" (Blake, 51). Obviously, this is not the way
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