Question

explane the nature of Blake's vision​

Answer 1

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THERE IS AN APPARENT tension in William Blake’s attitude toward the visual. Blake denies the value of sense perception, and of perceptible natural objects, as sources of genuine insight. And he is dismissive of “natural religion” (as natural theology was called in the period) on the grounds that natural objects as present to the senses are insufficient to ground religious experience.

Blake’s own spiritual experiences are, however, typically described in intensely visual terms. As a child of eight, he saw “a tree filled with angels” on the common at Peckham Rye in south London, and throughout his life reported “visions” as a source of insight. The narrative of “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” is largely composed of reports of what the narrator “saw” in hell. What observation of nature lacks is, it seems, to be supplied by visions undergone by Blake himself and by others.

Answer 2

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Visions were a sustaining force for William Blake throughout his artistic and poetic life. ... In later works, including Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, the engravings and verses are inextricably intertwined, part of a singular vision where neither word nor image is privileged over the other.