ENGL 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: The Tyger, Handcuffs
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What romantic poets are doing is like wordsworth in the world is too much within. Us, is describe this feeling of not belonging. Want to give us ways to think about god, nature, the world in a post enlightenment, secular world. Where the resources of religion or faith have been undermined by science or modern society. Trying to exercise in us imagination and experience of faith religion used to give us but now has a hard time doing so as it did in the pre modern era. Function of images and creation of images to connect to experiences of faith. An idea of who i am is this internal identity or will or soul or something (blake"s criticism of cartesian dualism) This gets thought of as a vestige of religion; of thinking that i am some sort of transcending being. We are how we act; we are effects of lots of what we do.
