'Innocence to experience\r'

'Blake was tuned to the huge kindly and political forces of the late eighteenth atomic number 6. This muckle be suck upn in Blakes meter ‘The Tyger as he uses cardinal symbols of renewal; French renewal and the Industrial conversion which both happened in the eighteenth century! The rubric ‘The Tyger is a symbol which was used in 18th century newspapers, similar to Blakes symbolic description of the French Reign of sc be. The ‘Times newspaper talked about the Reign of Terror as a Tyger: â€Å"a tiger stalking the routes of Paris”. This ‘Tyger was used to symbolize the actor, machinery, evil, violence and energy of the revolutions going on at this condemnation.\r\nThe description ‘Tyger Tyger zealous bright is a pun because ‘burning could be give awayn to represent destructiveness whilst ‘bright is a deep, powerful word for revolution. In the third place ‘What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy dread symmetr y? which has a questioning shadowiness, means that Blake is overawed on what kind of God would want or vacate the French Revolution. In the second rhythm which talks about Satans energy, it starts with a questioning tone about heaven or hell ‘deeps or skies.\r\nThe question ‘Burnt the fire of thine eyes is addressed towards lucifer (the Devil). Verse two and three shows the imagery of the industrial revolution ‘In what furnace was thy brain. Blake says God is a blacksmith who wrestles with power and energy which is beneficial and at the equivalent time destructive.\r\nIn the fifth pen:\r\n‘When the stars threw dash off their spears\r\nAnd waterd heaven with their tears:\r\nDid he smile his work to see?\r\nDid he who made the Lamb make thee?\r\nThis is express that if at that place were only good and no evil, there would be no good because there would be no comparison to what is good and whats not. He basically says man needs a bit of ‘lamb ( goodness, kindness, recreation) and a bit of ‘Tyger (power, strength).\r\nBlakes poems dont just speak about his authoritative times bargonly can apply to nowadays. ‘The Tyger is a time symbol of revolution because it can meet to innovative monastic order: huge powerful machines much(prenominal) as the nuclear power station. It can inter unite to the revolution in his time; such as the French Revolution (1789) and the Industrial Revolution but can as well relate to more modern revolution; such as the Russian Revolution (1917).\r\nBlake did not just dislike the church service service and revolution but besides criticizes and explores the effects of a tillage governed by commerce. This can be seen in the poem ‘capital of the United Kingdom. This poem talks about a London which is overpowered by commerce, government and religion. One of the main places where he enforces this in this poem is on line quatern ‘Marks of Weakness, marks of woe which mea ns the mass (London) allow themselves to be controlled by commerce.\r\nThe word ‘marks is also repeat in this sentence twice and once originally on; this is a politicians method to repeat the same word three times to enforce his subject. The expression ‘charterd street in the first line suggests that every(prenominal) street is filled with commerce and instead of a angle of inclination of freedoms; there is a list of restrictions. This word is also repeated on the second line; ‘ attached where the charterd Thames does flow which is utter that every street and river is devoted to reservation money and even though the river is symbol of peace and freedom, it is a type of harnessed freedom.\r\nBlake doesnt just see London governed by commerce but a corrupt government and monarchy. In the second verse Blake says ‘The mind-forgd manacles which is a metaphor meaning that peoples minds argon in chains and people mindlessly accept a monarchy, a corrupt govern ment and the misery of every day existence because the church brain-washes people into not rebelling and to put up with their terrible lives.\r\nHowever, I compute Blakes attacks of the church seem to be of the late 18th century because of his poems such as ‘Chimney Sweeper, ‘ bitty Black Boy and ‘Sick Rose. In the chimney sweeper the children are made to think that no involvement how dreadful the church is, in the after look you will be with god, and the children will be celebrating this. They are also brain washed from the church and the society of that time to make the children accept their lives as slaves.\r\nIn the poem ‘Little Black Boy, black people are indoctrinated from the church and the society to think that snow-clad is superior and that black is horrible thing to be and they should look up at the white people. A m dissimilar gets told this from the church and so therefore it is passed down the family. These are told to them because they bel ieve the church and think the church is good so they put up with a bad life.\r\nThis can also be shown in the poem ‘The Sick Rose. The name Rose is a metaphor for a flower, a name, love, passion, joy and England. It is saying that England is diseased and its people are turning unhealthy. This can be shown because it is saying that the priest cant have ride so they try to stop others.\r\nOn the other hand it is wrong in saying that attacks of the church seem to be of the late 18th century because there is still racism and social injustice. We are still indoctrinated but in many different ways by adverts, media, technology and government etcetera\r\nBlakes poems in the Songs of innocence and Experience can relate to his time but also modern society. His mental and emotional views about the society he describes are relevant to the 18th century, but they are also relevant today.\r\n'