-rebelled against the preceding time period

-great fans of cities like Athens

-represent a pronounced way in breaking the traditional way of looking at things.

-rebelling against the Enlightenment

logic, thinking clearly, etc.

This was a predominate notion of the Enlightenment 

something that makes no sense in terms of time.

EX: words in writing that make no sense or do not exist as far as we know 

1) untested innocence

2) experience Hell: vegetative world

3) tested/organizedm innocence. this level can only be entered by the exercise of human imagination EXAMPLE: Book of Thel

NEGATIVE: arrogance of the narrator.

Ex: We are Seven, Simon Lee

Los/Sol/Urthona "Earth Owner"

Someone who lives by their IMAGINATION.

They are the true owner's of the world.

Urizen: REASON, limitation.

Says that limitation is necessary.

Depicted as the old man with the flowing beard.

This side creates a circumference around imagination.

Luvah: LOVE OR EMOTION:

this is the place that the sun rises, without love or emotion the world cannot renew.

Used in the Book of Thel: Blake changes the general use of this and instead of deciding with the number of syllables in a sentence, he uses the number of STRESSED syllables in a line.

There are always SEVEN stressed syllables in a line.

intentionally misreading text with Satan being the hero.

Ex: in Milton's Paradise Lost many people only read the first two chapters and it appears that Satan is the hero, rebelling against the system.

Humor used with the purpose of revealing the weakness in something or to try to shame it into changing.

Blake: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

if you didn't know what was cold, you wouldn't know what was hot, etc.

The two are constantly at war with each other

Blake: Active vs. Passive

Constraries of Life

Active --> imagination --> prolific --> energy --> desire

Passive --> reason --> devouring --> restraint

Marriage of Heaven and Hell:

Deliberate inversion of Christian Proverbs 

Written by Coleridge:

lots of color images:

He feels he has actually benefited more than his friends by staying behind and using his imagination. His experience was actually much richer.

Shows the positive power of imagination. 

characters may shift from one meaning to another within the work.

Ex: Orc in America a Prophecy 

This relies on readers to actively use their imaginations to sort out the meaning of the changing characters and perspectives.  

Fiery spirit of revolution with snakes for hair.

Son of Los and Enitharmon.  

Poetic Styles involves nature.

He believed that nature actually shapes human beings.

Charge against him is that he was an egotist. Every poem he wrote was about himself and how he perceived the world around him. 

Written by WW.

Involves a negatively egotistical narrator.  

Written by WW.

Involved an old farmer and an negatively egotistical narrator.  

Written by WW.

Involves an old leach gatherer and a positive narrator.

Moral: compared to this old man the narrator should be thankful for his life, but then he sees that the man is actually very happy/content with his life. He is not bitter.

Resolution of the problem that these poems face, and indpendence of that enslavement of egotism.  

Verse form is seven line stanza.

First six lines are iambic pentameter,

last line is iambic hexameter.  

Written by WW.

as a child he steals a boat and imagines the huge mountains behind him coming after him.  

3 parts:

   1) epic quest (on only one)

2) spirital autobiography: the person is saves from himself through the interjection of God

3) Epistemology: we must not conform to the world around us.  

ascribing human mental or emotional traits to nature that are either animate or inanimate.

Coined by John Ruskin. 

Ex: On the moors the hair is running races in her mirth 

Written by WW. 

a poem about individual consciousness:

 he comes back to the abbey 5 years after his first visit. he has been through alot in the last five years, including losing a sibling. He saw that the abbey was unchanged.

He is seeing it with different eyes.  

Written by Coleridge:

good example of Pathetic fallacy:

The Merry Nightingale instead of the Melancholy nightingale 

Written by Coleridge:

Talking about the possible invasion of by France.

you cannot simply shed a robe of evil and become a better person 

aka Loyalty Oath:

the requirement that if you wanted to advance in British society you had to sign a document before you entered as a student that you recognized the British monarch as God's earthly representative.  

Written by Coleridge:

love poem to Sara Hutchinson (WW Sister in law)

shares the conversational nature and is extremely intimate.  

Written by Coleridge:

story of how Christabel was entranced by the devil.  

they had this vision of the middle ages that at that time most of Europe was covered by tall fur and pine trees with a few paths to connect the towns.

It was also a time of great supersition.