William Blake - positive and negative poems, autor Claudia Oana Tompoş

Researching Blake’s work I discovered a visionary who reminded me of Mihai Eminescu’s poems. That is why I wanted to know him closely and I tried to fully understand the essence of his lyrics. Compared to other major figures of the English Romanticism, William Blake was almost unknown and ignored in his time. Moreover, he was completely rejected by the next generations. Blake was widely regarded as a mystic, insane author of encoded and incoherent works. An extremely suggestive and representative quote related to William Blake belongs to William Wordsworth, a very famous poet of Blake’s era, who said upon his death: “There was no doubt that this poor man was mad, but there is something in the madness of this man which interests me more than the sanity of Lord Byron and Walter Scott.” (Scott and Byron were, without a doubt, the most popular literary figures of the early nineteenth century)

The very life of William Blake was treated outside the limits of normality. During his childhood, Blake would often claim the appearance of “visions”. When he was around the age of four he had portrayed God in front of a window. A few years later, at the age of nine, Blake described a tree full of angels which he confessed he saw during a walk in the surroundings. He had already expressed his desire to become a painter at the age of ten. Hence, his parents sent him to an art school. What I found shocking was that his parents did not force him to attend an elementary school. He learned to read and write all by himself. Shortly after, he started writing poetry.

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