ENGLISH 45B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Urizen

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Main takeaway: text oscillates between pessimism and optimism yet attempts to raise a question as to how their revolution (overthrow oppressor) may attain a level of purity ( noncyclical ) Poem provides outlet to describe unresolved political society (children"s poem) I. e. french revolutionary war == parallel to biblical prophecies. Gb had fallen to their own culture as their fatal flaw. Establishment/parliament were not fit to comprehend his objections anyway. Soliloquy : use of repetition to emphasize text. Text continuously is increasingly vague to force a different approach. Blake & others like watson are political activists (however successful that is smh) Poem is not inherently depressing or focused on oppression. Angels and otherwise divine figures turn against establishment. Blake"s poem ends after a 12yr span that prevented the spread of american ideals (dem) Urizen ----> another author scared of enlightenment reason (impact to tyranny) Many aristocrats/intellectuals believed this was a biblical revelation.

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