British Literature
Robert Burns and William Blake ?•s
1. Robert Burns is known as the national poet of Scotland; how does Burns incorporate/
honor is Scottish heritage in the poems “Auld Lang Syne•” and “John Anderson My
Jo”?
2. What idea concept is being praised/honored in “Auld Lang Syne”?
How is this same
theme extended in “John Anderson, My Jo”? How do these values reflect the values
of Romanticism? How do they contrast with the values of the Age of Reason?
3. What does the metaphor of the hill in the second stanza of John Anderson, My Jo
represent?
4. Explain how William Blake•s upbringing/worldview influenced the type of poetry hewrote.
5. How are “The Lamb” and “The Tyger” similar to each other? (Read “About the
Selection” on p 679) What two sides of the human soul do the animals represent?
Why did Blake it equally important to understand both sides? In a religiousframework, what do the two animals represent?
6. How do William Blake•s three poems celebrate the untameness of nature and rejectthe urbanity/structured society? How does this reflect Romanticism?
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4 comments:
1. He puts in a lot of slang into his poetry because he makes it for the common man to understand.
2. I think he is talking about going on a peaceful ride in the country-side. This is romanticism because they are talking about nature and the harmony that goes with it. They contrast the age of reason because these people go outside to enjoy nature without thinking.
3. It might symbolize living a life together as in "growing old together".
4. He had a vision that the world was both beautiful and bountiful, and ugly and painful. This lead him to write "Songs of Innocence", and "Songs of Experience".
5. They are both included in Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience. They symbolize innocence and experience.
6. They are all about nature and animals that represent human experiences and life experiences. They reject the idea of keep your life in check and everything is man-made. This reflects romanticism because its all about nature.
1- in the first one he talks about how friendly the Scottish are. in the second one he is talking about the love between two Scottish people are in.
2- He says how much fun the scottish people could have by just drinking and having fun with friends and just enjoying life in general. It resembles Romanticism because it talks about the two in love and also how the scottish just live for the moment and that contrasts because they are following their hearts instead of their heads.
3- Life and all of the hardships they had gone through.
4- He would have visions of these beings and would incorporate them into his poetry using them as a sort of visual aid to help with the message.
5- They are similar because they have the same rhyme scheme and have an almost identical structure. The lamb represents innocence and the tyger represents experience. Understanding these two are important because they are important in human life. In a religious framework the lamb would symbolize Jesus and the tyger would be evil.
6- He doesn’t see things as they really are in the busy world. He sees things in a more abstract way other than listening to the details. Also, he doesn’t put things into a logical view, but a more religious view.
1. He uses a lot of phrases common to scottish language.
2. i think he is talking about being in the countryside and how he likes nature which is very romantic of the times. They compare the age of reason with the age of romantics.
3. i think it means something like growing old together and being with someone.
4. he had a vision of the world of beauty and wealth, and also ugly and painful. he wrote two poems about it.
5. they symbolize both innocence and experience.
6. they are about nature and life and animals and represent human life. they show to think with you heart and not your reasoning.
1. Roberts Burns incorporated his native dialect, Scots, into the songs/poems. The native dialect added a new flavor and uniqueness to the literary pieces.
2. In "Auld Lang Syne", Burns is praising the friendship between a couple who have shared the joys and hard work of youth and now share their later years. In "John Anderson, My Jo", the past is being honored and remembered and they look forward to the future. In the Romanticism term, love is presented throughout both poems.
3. The metaphor of the hill represents the highs and lows of the relationship between the couple.
4. Blake used his worldview of the world to express his viewpoint of things going around.
5. Both poems come out of Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience and both are written in couplets and have the same rhyme scheme. The Lamb of God represents Jesus (Heaven)and innocence of the human soul. The Tiger represents the devil (Hell) and the cruelty in people. Blake found it important because he wanted to show that people where complex beings.
6. Each poem displays a unique emotion.
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