ENGLISH 1A03 Lecture 3: London
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William blake was a devout christian and he hated the view of god as an angry, old and distant. Blake lived in an age where rationality was huge, but he said we cannot forget to embrace the imagination. Imagination is the capacity and ability and willingness to imagine the world differently . Blake published the songs of innocence as a standalone text but not the songs of experience which always had to be combined with the former text. The poem contains so many repetitions in order to make the poem into some kind of spell and this can also be thought of as a counter-spell against the spell casted on the people by. The british government was afraid of its own citizens, and that"s why they cracked down on their own citizens. Ex: insulting the king was a reason for death. Manacles: a metal band, chain, or shackle for fastening someone"s hands or ankles.
