英国伟大诗人威廉布莱克 William Blake（课堂PPT）.pptVIP

The Romantic Period;;Nature comes to the forefront of the poetic imagination. Wordsworth is the closest to nature He conceives nature as “the nurse,/ the guide, /The guardian of my heart, and soul/ Of all my moral being”;Poetry should be free from all rules They turned to the humble people and the common everyday life for subjects. Wordsworth defines the poet as “a man speaking to men”, and poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility”;To escape from a world that had become excessively rational, materialistic and ugly, the Romantics would turn to other times and places. Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey chose to live by the lakeside so as to escape from the “madding crowd”; Byron and Shelley rejected the entire English society by their self-imposed exile. In order to achieve the effect of the individual vision, they would turn to the medieval or renaissance, or the mysterious east or even the supernatural for poetic resources and inspiration. ; William Blake ;2021/3/29;2021/3/29; Major Works;2. Songs of Innocence Presenting a happy and innocent world with a delightful tone 3. Songs of Experience Presenting a world of misery, poverty, disease, war and repression with a melancholy tone ;Questions for Discussion;FROM Songs of Innocence INTRODUCTION;“Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe; Sing thy songs of happy chear”: So I sung the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. “Piper, sit thee down and write In a book, that all may read.” So he vanish’d from my sight, And I pluck’d a hollow reed,;And I made a rural pen, And I stain’d the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear.;London;How the chimney-sweeper’s cry Every black’ning Church appalls; And the hapless Soldier’s sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls. But most thro’ midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlot’s curse Blasts the new born Infant’s tear, And blights with plagues