[ENG308Y1] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (23 pages long!)
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Blake has a didactic aim with this song. Burke and pains different ideas of liberty: burke- tradition is what ensures english liberty, things being passed down naturally, pane- tradition is what restricts liberty, the past should not rule over the present; shifting individualism. Debate carried out in print, in public. Experience of revolution influenced a revolution in form and genre. Blake clearly adapts the popularity of children"s literature into ideological literature. Blake is challenging predominant conventions of 18th century poetry and so challenges the readers sociopolitical position. It was a very critical time for english romanticism. Revolution brought rights into concern: matters of freedom and equality. Political tension in europe remained; war with france dominated social economical and polictical scene in england: social and political tension between conservatives and radicals, time of instability. War was scene as a spectacle because it was taking place outside of.