Songs of Innocence
What year was the Songs of Innocence published?
1789
How many poems were in Songs of Experience?
26 poems
Where was Blake born?
London
Blake believed body and soul were?
Together
One of Galileo's contributions to the scientific revolution was improving the
Telescope
How many poems are in the Songs of Innocence?
19
What was the Songs of Experience version of The Lamb?
The Tyger
What school did Blake attend?
Henry Pars Drawing School
Blake's beliefs were mainly based off of his?
Imagination
What was different about the painting "An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump" from paintings of the past?
It depicted science in a positive light.
How did Blake portray life throughout the poems in the Songs of Innocence?
Happy and Innocent
What was the main difference between Infant Joy and Infant Sorrow?
One showed the joy of childbirth and the other showed the vulnerability of a newborn child.
Who did Blake claim to have conversed with?
Angel Gabriel, the Virgin Mary, and other historical figures.
Blake believed a ____ based religion was the early good religion.
Nature
During his time, Isaac Newton, rather than a scientist, was known as a
Natural Philosopher
What did Blake Express throughout the poems In the Songs of Innocence?
His beliefs on race, religion, and society
What does Blake say replaced the flowers in the field in The Garden of Love?
Tombstones/Gravestones
“And tombstones where flowers should be”
What was Blake’s first book of poems?
Poetical Sketches
Blake was influenced by which Swedish Theologian?
Emanuel Swedenborg
Which belief got Galileo persecuted by the Catholic Church?
The belief that the Earth and the other planets go around the sun.
What was the common theme displayed throughout the poems in Songs of Innocence?
Protecting the innocence of children.
What was the main difference between the two Holy Thursday poems?
The innocence poem talks about the children marching because they worship God but the experience one says the gratitude is forced and they are blindly following orders
What was the major connection between the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience?
Songs of Innocence was supposed to be stories/poems before children were exposed to the harsh realities of life. Songs of Experience is the same stories/poems after children were exposed to these harsh realities.
In what plate in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell did Blake talk about his ideal religion
Plate 11
Name two of the main discoveries by Isaac Newton.
*the laws of motion
*universal gravitation