Revolutionary. In many poems (and prints) written in his life, Blake always stood on the side of the people, always supported revolution, peace, war and specialization.
Tyranny. His beautiful lyrics are high and concise, and his style is simple, but his imagination is rich. He put his revolutionary enthusiasm, yearning for freedom and a better life.
Our love and hate for the dark society are fantasized and expressed in poetry. This fully shows T's artistic inspiration and talent. Song of Experience is Blake's most important work.
As one of the poetry collections, it mainly tells the sufferings of life and is a portrayal of harsh reality, and London is the most famous short poem in this poetry collection.
Among English poets, there are many writers who write about London, such as Johnson and Woodsworth. Some of them are underachievers and poor.
Sao; Others praise the greatness of Britain and the brilliance of London, but ignore the cruel social reality. Black's poor life brought him close to the working people and realized the darkness and corruption of British society at that time. The vicissitudes of life and rich life experience have made this literary master with complex emotions and profound thoughts. His London is very different from other poets.
In the first section of London, the poet wandered the streets of London with painful meditation, witnessing the "special" streets of the big bourgeoisie and the luck of the times. "Exclusive use" has become synonymous with monopoly capital or commercial rights. It implies that raising this city has been eroded by the copper smell of capitalism and is full of depravity and sin. As for the people, they are sickly, forced by the cold and crying everywhere. Every passerby's face is engraved with expressions of weakness and pain. In order to highlight the bad luck suffered by citizens, whether adults or babies, the poet repeatedly used f 1 "every" in section _, and used a series of coordinate structures, which led to (D. Every cry of every mother means every cry of every baby. With his keen observation, the poet presents readers with such a terrible field: under the dim street lamp, every face distorted by pain, every curse and every piercing cry comes from a cold and silent deep alley. This makes the visual and auditory images perfectly integrated. At the same time, the poets realized that they were imprisoned and strangled by the shackles cast by the mind.
Thematically, London's condemnation of social evils is the keynote. The poet captures three typical images that best illustrate these evils, namely, children sweeping chimneys, soldiers spilling blood on palace walls and prostitutes living on the streets. In a short poem of 16, all these are exposed and criticized incisively and vividly. /kloc-The British industrial revolution in the late 8th century made Britain the first industrialized country in the world. With the development of industrial revolution, chimneys are everywhere. Many children from poor families become cheap labor to clean chimneys. These children are ragged and scrawny, crawling in and out of chimneys full of coal ash all day; This was a great evil of British capitalist society at that time. Unfortunately, soldiers are undoubtedly the product of the uninterrupted colonial war of capitalism; Prostitutes wandering in the streets late at night make people feel sorry for the misery of the lower classes and spend their money on the evil and decay of woodism. Around the above three central images, the poet supported and strengthened the theme of condemnation from different angles with other images. "Curse" and "special use" complement each other, and "the shackles of the soul" develop to the extreme. Every church is blackened by the capitalist chimney, which symbolizes the evil of collusion between the British church and the government. The walls of the palace were dyed red with the blood of the soldiers. Such bright color contrast is both realistic and abstract, with the same effect. Every image in the poem is gloomy, which is consistent with the gloomy night scene in London and the depressed mood in Nightcrawler on the Thames. In addition, the poem also uses six harsh voices to accuse the city of evil: people crying, the shackles of silver files, the cries of children sweeping chimneys, the sighs of soldiers and the curse of prostitutes. The vivid image, painful voice and strong appeal of the poet's works make this poem profoundly, pungent and incisively expose the corruption of London's urban life. So 0 liver F lton praised this poem as "the most powerful poem".
Besides, from Blake's other poems, such as Tiger and Children Sweeping the Chimney, we can not only read the poet's profound literary thoughts, but also read the poet's deep sympathy for the working people and his strong yearning for a free, democratic and peaceful world. Blake's poems have a wide range of themes, and the poet showed us the face of Britain, the style of the times and the poet's inner world in various ways.
Quote: Wang Xiuyan's Analysis of william blake's Works