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1、,William Blake,Group 8,Content,1. Author,Introduction,Background,4.Stylistic Features,PART ONE author,Early life,Later life and career,Turning point,His last life,His life,His life,Early life: He attended school only long enough to learn reading and writing, leaving at the age of ten, and was otherw
2、ise educated at home by his mother Catherine Blake. Even though the Blakes were English Dissenters, William was baptised on 11 December at St Jamess Church, Piccadilly, London. The Bible was an early and profound influence on Blake, and remained a source of inspiration throughout his life.,His life,
3、Later life and career: Blakes marriage to Catherine was close and devoted until his death. Blake taught Catherine to write, and she helped him colour his printed poems. Gilchrist refers to “stormy times“ in the early years of the William and Catherines first daughter and last child might be Thel des
4、cribed in The Book of Thel who was conceived as dead.,His life,Turning point:1803 Changing of his mind and art An altercation with a private who in the Royal dragoons,His life,His last life: Blakes last years were spent at Fountain Court off the Strand (the property was demolished in the 1880s, when
5、 the Savoy Hotel was built). On the day of his death (12 August 1827), Blake worked relentlessly on his Dante series.,PART TWO,Introduction,THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER,“The Chimney Sweeper“ is the title of a poem by William Blake, published in two parts in Songs of Innocence in 1789 and Songs of experience
6、in 1794. The poem “The Chimney Sweeper“ is set against the dark background of child labour that was prominent in England in the late 18th and 19th century. At the age of four and five, boys were sold to clean chimneys, due to their small size. These children were oppressed and had a diminutive exist
7、ence that was socially accepted at the time.,THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER,In the earlier poem, a young chimney sweeper recounts a dream had by one of his fellows, in which an angel rescues the boys from coffins and takes them to a sunny meadow; in the later poem, an apparently adult speaker encounters a chil
8、d chimney sweeper abandoned in the snow while his parents are at church or possibly even suffered death where church is referring to being with God.,THE TYGER,“The Tyger“ is a poem by the English poet William Blake published in 1794 as part of the Songs of Experience collection. Literary critic Alfr
9、ed Kazin calls it “the most famous of his poems“, and The Cambridge Companion to William Blake says it is “the most anthologized poem in English“. It is one of Blakes most reinterpreted and arranged works.,Part Three Background,William Blake 1757-1827,The British Industrial Revolution 英国工业革命,1760-18
10、40,American Revolutionary War 美国独立战争,1775-1783,A period of great achievement,The British Industrial Revolution 英国工业革命,The manual workshop,Factories that use big machines,The peasants resist strongly, they petitioned.,In order to get jobs, raise wages, improve conditions of labor, workers struck, sma
11、shed machines, and clashed with government forces.,The British Industrial Revolution 英国工业革命,In this context he wrote this poem, and it is this poem that shows his time background.,The Chimney Sweeper,The Four Zoas,In 1804, this poem revealed that the industrial and commercial prosperity of the Briti
12、sh empire was based on exploitation and slavery.,Blake was living in this age and his poetry was the product of this turbulent(动荡不安的) age.,The British Industrial Revolution 英国工业革命,During the industrial revolution, which was supposed to be the dark age of the chimney sweepers, the number of child chi
13、mney sweepers reached its peak.,The French Revolution 法国大革命,The French revolution destroyed the autocratic rule of the French monarchy（法国君主专制统治）and spread the progressive ideas of liberal democracy.,This time Blake wrote prophecy poem(预言诗) French revolution (1791) and America (1793), etc., eulogized
14、（颂扬） the bourgeois（资产阶级） democratic national revolution, denounced（痛斥） the feudal autocracy, asked for human equality, the latter poem also criticized the British colonial policy.,The American war of independence and the French revolution swept across Europe and America, and there was an anti-feudal
15、 and anti-colonialism struggle in Britain.,The impact on France,The impact on Britain,The impact on Blake,The French Revolution 法国大革命,During the French revolution (1789-1794), Europes bourgeois revolution is on the upswing and the class struggle was extremely sharp,In these five years, Blake wrote t
16、he most important work in his life. The French Revolution Song of Experience Prophetic books,So the poem The Tyger that symbolized the French revolution was born,PART FOUR,Stylistic Features,Contents,Pre-Romanticism Mysticism Religionism Symbolism,Pre-Romanticism,It originated among the conservative groups of men of letters as a reaction against Enlightenment. Characteristic: The Pre-Romanticist would pay more attention to ordinary people, and have a more optimistic attitude towa
