Question

symbolize according to William Blake?​

Answer 1

Answer:

The major symbols in Blake's poetry are; lamb, rose, children, tiger, garden, stars, forest, looms and net. William Blake loves lambs. They connect religion with both human and natural world. ... In the Christian Gospels, Jesus Christ is compared to a lamb because he goes meekly to be sacrificed on behalf of humanity.

Answer 2

Q. Symbolize according to William Blake?

Answer:-

William Blake (1757-1827) was not a lyrical poet but a great visionary.

How visionary

• As a visionary, he always looks for things beyond what is immediate and palpable.

• His search for the glories and the terrors of the world of spirit is innate, and

Compare

• unlike Wordsworth who discovers pantheistic entity that is both immanent in and transcendent from the universe, manifest in the gracious spirit of nature, Blake feels with the eye of one who cannot help dreaming dreams and seeing visions.

• The visionary in him may and will overpower the artist, and a wild confusion of imagery often blurs his work whether as a draughtsman and a singer. 

Industrial Revolution

• While the Industrial revolution disgusted him, he saw in the simple joys and cheeriness of ordinary life a Paradise regained.

• And In the Songs of Innocence, he entered an Eden from which man had long been alienated.

• No poet, not even Wordsworth, drew charm from simpler sources than Blake; and none revelled with such gay and exquisite feelings of discovery.

• If he had the naturalness and the spontaneity of a child, he had also his wild luxurious fancy; and a quaint, delicious fantasy binds by threads of shimmering gossamer all living things, uniting them in a spirit of joyous abandon and tender sympathy. 

Mysticism

• Mysticism in poetry is blended usually with a wistful melancholy.

• “The desire of the moth for the star and the night for the morrow” animates the poet’s soul; and in his thirst for eternity, he feels more and more dissatisfied with the show of life.

Blake as Mystic

• But Blake is an exception.

• He is joyful mystic; for him the morning stars sing together, and the splendour of life outweighs its shadows.

• There are mournful regrets in his verse, no sighing for a day that is dead.

• Evil rouses his anger, not his tears. Sorrow he accepts cheerfully as a necessary twin of joy.

Comparison

• Unlike some mystics he did not seek after the spirit world because he despised the world of sense, but because he loved it so well he felt there was more in it than man could fathom here.

• His mysticism was not an inspiration for the future; it was a realization of the present. “ The kingdom of God is within you”: we have only to free ourselves from what is base and paltry, and we live in this realm of this spiritual beauty now.

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