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William Blake’s Songs of Experience 1794

William Blake’s Songs of Experience 1794. Songs of Experience : a collection of twenty-six poems displaying the importance of freedom. “The Sick Rose” “The Tyger” “The Clod and the Pebble” “London”. Authorial Eponyms. Eponym : A word derived from a proper name

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William Blake’s Songs of Experience 1794

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  1. William Blake’s Songs of Experience 1794

  2. Songs of Experience: a collection of twenty-six poems displaying the importance of freedom. • “The Sick Rose” • “The Tyger” • “The Clod and the Pebble” • “London”

  3. Authorial Eponyms Eponym: A word derived from a proper name • Orwellian –something that brings to mind the totalitarian dystopia depicted in Orwell’s 1984. • Dickensian –something which resembles the conditions within Charles Dickens’s novels (squalid and poverty-stricken conditions). • Blakean –writing which demands to processed on many levels simultaneously.

  4. “London”or, “London, during the late 18th century, is filthy and cruel”

  5. An aged, crippled man and a child who seems to be leading him appear as two victims of Blake’s London.How does Blake’s drawing affect the poem?

  6. Blake was painfully deliberate in his selections of words… • Explain why the change from “dirty” to “charter’d” is significant. • Consider the effect of the word “wander” instead of “walk” in line one. • How does the word “mark” affect the poem?

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