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A 6 page paper which examines the poetry of William Blake and discusses the criticism therein as it pertains to the Industrial Revolution. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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was a time when many people needed to move to cities in order to make a living. Families were torn apart and people lived in utter poverty in the major
European cities. The previously pastoral landscapes seemed all but destroyed by factories and darkness. William Blake was a man who apparently abhorred the Industrial Revolution and what it did to
the people and the land. The following paper examines some of his poetry as it reflects this clear distaste of the Industrial Revolution. The poems examined are A Divine Image,
Holy Thursday II, London, and The Tyger. Criticism of the Industrial Revolution in William Blakes Poetry Blake was born in London and spent most of his life there.
One author indicates how "Blake hated the effects of the Industrial Revolution in England and looked forward to the establishment of a New Jerusalem in Englands green and pleasant land"
(Poet Seers). He is perhaps best known for his Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience wherein he essentially presented na?ve views of the world and then experienced, mature, views
of the world. As one could well imagine, the poems that deal with the negative realities of the Industrial Revolution were poems that were written when he was older, and
experienced. In A Divine Image the narrator illustrates aspects of human nature that are very clearly connected to the darkest side, or darkest physical realities, of the Industrial Revolution.
The last four lines of the poem, which only comprises two stanzas, are as follows: "The human dress is forged iron,/ The human form a fiery forge,/ The human face
a furnace sealed,/ The human heart its hungry gorge" (Blake [1] 5-8). The images presented are very dark and very industrial. They are reflective, symbolic, of the Industrial Revolution as
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