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Category Archives: Holy Thursday
“Objects of Charity”: Capitalist Philanthropy in Songs of Innocence and of Experience
My paper will provide a Marxist analysis of charity schools and how these institutions foster capitalism. The presence of religion in the poems of Songs of Innocence and of Experience makes it easy to overlook the greater social issues that underlie the texts. This paper argues that through the alienation of children characters by religious […] Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Holy Thursday, Research Abstracts (11/20), Songs of Innocence and Experience, the chimney sweeper, Uncategorized (you sucker!), William Blake
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Wolf in Knight’s Armor: Civility in “Holy Thursday”
The contrasting levels of power present harmoniously in “Holy Thursday” from Songs of Innocence, like the children, beadles, and God in St. John’s Cathedral, illustrates the exertion of false power Thomas Paine and William Blake’s Moravian beliefs rejected. This civility with which the scene in “Holy Thursday” is conducted with demonstrates the way civility fosters social hierarchies and […] Continue reading
Posted in chivalry, civility, Empire vs. Revolution (10/16), Holy Thursday, innocence, The Rights of Man, Thomas Paine, William Blake, William Blake's reception
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God’s (Innocent) Kids Aren’t Alright
My arrangement of the plates from William Blake’s Songs of Innocence aimed at recounting the observations and reflections of an omniscient narrator/onlooker. Through the my selections I formed a narrative that questions the effectiveness of religious faith as a form of personal and social governance. The poems I chose were “Holy Thursday,” “The Chimney Sweep,” and “On […] Continue reading
Posted in art, Holy Thursday, Innocence, Eden, and Childhood (9/11), On Anothers Sorrow, Poetic Genius, Religion, religious skepticism, Songs of Innocence, the chimney sweeper, William Blake
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Holy Thursdays
Last week, I explored “Holy Thursday” from Songs of Innocence. In considering which two poems to examine as contraries, I immediately became interested in expanding my exploration of the original “Holy Thursday” by comparing it to its twin of the same name in Songs of Experience. The first difference I noted is the lack of […]
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Posted in Blake, Dark, Holy Thursday, Songs of experience, Songs of Innocence, William Blake's reception
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The Divine, Lambs, and Children
The three images above all deal with some dimension of the likeness between God and mankind. I have arranged them in this order, moving from “The Lamb” to “Holy Thursday” and finishing with “The Divine Image” because I saw a natural sequential development of the course of the three plates. Beginning in “The Lamb,” Blake […]
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Posted in children, Divine Image, Holy Thursday, innocence, Innocence, Eden, and Childhood (1/27), Jesus, lamb, man, Songs of Innocence, The Lamb, William Blake
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