sladerunner69
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Anyone else fascinated by the late great legend of the 18-19th century Romantic movement?
I recently bought "Songs of Innocence" and have read a few passages. alluring, elegant, deep but disjointed, it is all out there. I really am falling for his brushwork, really remarkable stuff. I want to put up a few paintings in my room.
I am currently taking a British Literature course and was excited to learn we are spending a lecture learning about William Blake. I want to seek out opinions/thoughts/observations about the man himself, or his work, so that I will contribute to the discussion on friday. Any thoughts?
"Blake’s work, I think, is of continued and increased interest because he discovered something of great importance, namely, how to avoid dogmatisms of all sorts. Many students who are assigned to write about a poem of Blake’s are puzzled, and ask what it means. When they find out that they understand the words and the syntax, it turns out that the only problem was that they were taught that they had to “interpret” poetry. And that they don’t think he could have meant what he said. Most twentieth century students are too stodgy to accept Blake’s writing easily. In the 1950s, some people couldn’t understand Alan Ginsberg’s poetry, because they didn’t think anyone was allowed to say such things. That is the kind of problem students have with Blake. "- Dr. Prof. Raymond Peat
I recently bought "Songs of Innocence" and have read a few passages. alluring, elegant, deep but disjointed, it is all out there. I really am falling for his brushwork, really remarkable stuff. I want to put up a few paintings in my room.
I am currently taking a British Literature course and was excited to learn we are spending a lecture learning about William Blake. I want to seek out opinions/thoughts/observations about the man himself, or his work, so that I will contribute to the discussion on friday. Any thoughts?
"Blake’s work, I think, is of continued and increased interest because he discovered something of great importance, namely, how to avoid dogmatisms of all sorts. Many students who are assigned to write about a poem of Blake’s are puzzled, and ask what it means. When they find out that they understand the words and the syntax, it turns out that the only problem was that they were taught that they had to “interpret” poetry. And that they don’t think he could have meant what he said. Most twentieth century students are too stodgy to accept Blake’s writing easily. In the 1950s, some people couldn’t understand Alan Ginsberg’s poetry, because they didn’t think anyone was allowed to say such things. That is the kind of problem students have with Blake. "- Dr. Prof. Raymond Peat