William-Blake-个人及作品风格介绍

His life
Turning point:1803
Changing of his mind and art
An altercation with a private who in the Royal dragoons
His life
His last life: Blake's last years were spent at Fountain Court off the Strand (the property was demolished in the 1880s, when the Savoy Hotel was built). On the day of his death (12 August 1827), Blake worked relentlessly on his Dante series.
法国大革命
A period of great achievement
The British Industrial Revolution
英国工业革命
The manual workshop
Factories that use big machines
Farmers lost land, a large number of skilled workers lost their jobs, handicraftsmen lost their status.
The American war of independence and the French revolution swept across Europe and America, and there was an anti-feudal and anti-colonialism struggle in Britain.
THE TYGER
"The Tyger" is a poem by the English poet William Blake published in 1794 as part of the Songs of Experience collection. Literary critic Alfred Kazin calls it "the most famous of his poems", and The Cambridge Companion to William Blake says it is "the most anthologized poem in English". It is one of Blake's most reinterpreted and arranged works.
PART FOUR
Stylistic Features
Contents
Pre-Romanticism Mysticism Religionism Symbolism
Pre-Romanticism
It originated among the conservative groups of men of letters as a reaction against Enlightenment.
THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER
In the earlier poem, a young chimney sweeper recounts a dream had by one of his fellows, in which an angel rescues the boys from coffins and takes them to a sunny meadow; in the later poem, an apparently adult speaker encounters a child chimney sweeper abandoned in the snow while his parents are at church or possibly even suffered death where church is referring to being with God.
This time Blake wrote prophecy poem(预言诗) French revolutionetc., eulogized（颂 扬） the bourgeois（资产阶级） democratic national revolution, denounced（痛斥） the feudal autocracy, asked for human equality, the latter poem also criticized the British colonial policy.
In these five years, Blake wrote the most important work in his life. The French Revolution Song of Experience Prophetic books
So the poem The Tyger that symbolized the French revolution was born
The British Industrial Revolution
英国工业革命
The industrial and commercial prosperity of
the British Exploitation and slavery
During the industrial revolution, which was supposed to be the dark age of the chimney sweepers, the number of child chimney sweepers reached its peak.
The French Revolution 法国大革命
During the French revolution (1789-1794), Europe's bourgeois revolution is on the upswing and the class struggle was extremely sharp
The impact on France The impact on Britain The impact on Blake
The French Revolution
法国大革命
The French revolution destroyed the autocratic rule of the French monarchy（法国君主专制统治）and spread the progressive ideas of liberal democracy.
The peasants resist strongly, they petitioned.
In order to get jobs, raise wages, improve conditions of labor, workers struck, smashed machines, and clashed
The Chimney Sweeper The Four Zoas
In this context he wrote this poem, and it is this poem that shows his time background.
In 1804, this poem revealed that the industrial and commercial prosperity of the British empire was based on exploitation and slavery.
PART TWO
Introduction
THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER
"The Chimney Sweeper" is the title of a poem by William Blake, published in two parts in Songs of Innocence in 1789 and Songs of experience in 1794. The poem "The Chimney Sweeper" is set against the dark background of child labour that was prominent in England in the late 18th and 19th century. At the age of four and five, boys were sold to clean chimneys, due to their small size. These children were oppressed and had a diminutive existence that was socially accepted at the time.
with government forces.
The British Industrial Revolution
英国工业革命
Blake was living in this age and his poetry was the product of this turbulent(动荡不安的) age.
William Blake
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Content
1. Author 3.Background
2.Introduction 4.Stylistic Features
PART ONE author
His life
1. Early life
2. Later life and career
3. Turning point 4. His last life
Part Three
Background
William Blake 1757-1827
1760-1840
The British Industrial Revolution
英国工业革命
1775-1783
American Revolutionary War
美国独立战争
1789-1794
The French Revolution
His life
Early life: He attended school only long enough to learn reading and writing, leaving at the age of ten, and was otherwise educated at home by his mother Catherine Blake. Even though the Blakes were English Dissenters, William was baptised on 11 December at St James's Church, Piccadilly, London. The Bible was an early and profound influence on Blake, and remained a source of inspiration throughout his life.
His life
Later life and career: Blake's marriage to Catherine was close and devoted until his death. Blake taught Catherine to write, and she helped him colour his printed poems. Gilchrist refers to "stormy times" in the early years of the William and Catherine's first daughter and last child might be Thel described in The Book of Thel who was conceived as dead.