English 2307E Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The Chimney Sweeper, Chimney Sweep, The Divine Image
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He would put the sheet of copper into acid so that it would wear the incisions away. His wife would tint it with water colour. This was a strange process for blake to use, because he was living in modern industrial times where this method was kind of a. It was as though he was trying to get away from mass production, and choosing a more artisan process. He wasn"t trying to make thousands of copies, only a few. Blake doesn"t call these opposites, but contraries they are all concepts that require the other (it needs the other to define itself) You can"t just exist in a state of innocence you require experience: to recover from the fall as humans, blake implies we need to recover the capacity to imagine. The tiger: a poem of experience, form, a series of quatrains, a regular rhyme scheme and meter, the regularity of the poem doesn"t seem to produce the same tone as.