Biography
Holy Thursday
London
Misc
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28 November 1757
What is William Blake's Birthday?
100
What is the significance of the use of "charter'd" in the first stanza?
Charter'd is used in the sense of ownership or rental, so its use in the poem is a node to the fact that even public locations like the Thames are actually owned by the rich and powerful.
100
Which poem's lines are longer? Holy Thursday or London?
Holy Thursday
200
12 August 1827
What is William Blake's death?
200
What disability does the infant suffer from?
The child suffers from blindness after he was born from a mother who contracted gonorrhea from a Harlet.
200
How far apart in time were "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" published?
5 years
300
A foggy day in 1772
What is the year William Blake was accepted to the Royal Academy?
300
Other than a symbol of peace, what/who do the sheep represent and compare the children to?
Who is Jesus?
300
Who is putting "mind-forg'd manacles" on the people?
The people are by choosing to live this type of lifestyle.
300
Who originally printed "Songs of Innocence"?
William Blake
400
This is the art-form Blake began his artistic career with and the one that took up most of his carreer.
What is Engraving?
400
Why do "the aged men, wise guardians" sit beneath the children?
They sit beneath the children because the strength of the children's song raises them towards heaven, above the aged men and wise guardians.
400
The significance of change in tone between 'Mark' and 'Marks' on line three and four?
This is a passage by the narrator into an observer.
400
When "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" was published, what was it meant to 'show'? What was it's subtitle?
Showing the two contrary states of the human soul
500
This is the piece that William Blake wrote in response to his university's President's paper "disposition to abstractions, to generalising and classification, is the great glory of the human mind".
What is "To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit"?
500
What is the difference between public charity and true Christian charity as highlighted in this poem and what is the observer asking the read to do?
Public charity is done for the purpose of seeming generous and caring, while Christian charity is true charity that cares about taken cares of others.
500
What is the significance of not seeing actual people but rather the reminiscence of large institutions?
Blake blames the large institutions for the suffering of the people.
500
The romantics see childhood as a state of protected innocence. What is Blake's original take on this?
That childhood is a state of innocence and not original sin, yet this innocence is not immune to the terrible environment, corrupted institutions, and general oppression of the time.
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