autori inglesi del romanticismo

Caratteristiche: Caratteristiche: 1. Importance of feelings and intuition. 2. Free play of imagination. Poetic “vision”. 3. Children are sacred, begin the closest creatures to God and thus to the source of creation. Adults learn from their childhood experience. 4. more consideration given to the poet's inner life. Poetry seen as the expression of the soul and celebration of the freedom of nature and individual experience. 5. language more typical of common usage. 6. Heightened observation of nature and everyday situations. BLAKE symbolism The most famous images Blake uses to represent these two states are the lamb and the tiger. The LAMB is a symbol of the innocence of childhood. Some critics have pointed out that the infantile qualities of the lamb, related to the idea of weakness and innocence, refer also to the God of love and infinite forgiveness of the New Testament, who is incarnated in the figure of the baby Jesus. The child, who is close to the source of creation, identifies with the infant Christ. Moreover, also the figure of the poet can be compared to that of the lamb and of the child. The tiger is a symbol of the evil which inevitably comes from worldly experience. The symbolism of “ the tiger”, however, is not so easy to interpreter. Some critics have seen it as an image of the creative energy of human life. This energy aspires to a geometrical perfect form, symbolised by the symmetry of the tiger. But to blake this symmetry is “fearful” because it embodies the contradictory and yet complementary forces of good and evil which are impossible to separate. This is the way Blake saw the French Revolution: as the possibility of absolute freedom which could not be separated from the terror and violence it provoked. Like the “Tiger”, freedom and revolution are at once glorious, because they are a kind of divine creative energy, and terrible, because they lead to death and horror. But unlike the Romantic writes who followed, particularly Coleridge and Wordsworth, Blake did not turn away from the idea of revolution towards nostalgia for an idyllic world of the past. He had no solutions to the revolution's contradictory forces of beauty and horror. He chose simply to confront these forces without trying to resolve them. Blake makes extensive use symbolism in his poems. Among other famous symbols are children, flowers and particular seasons to symbolise innocence while urban and industrial landscapes and machines represent oppression and rationalism. Blake is fundamentally dissatisfied with society, which, in his opinion, lacks the power of imagination and uncorrupted feeling. he thinks that the poet, however, possesses these power and can therefore be called a visionary. In a letter to Reverend Dr John Trussler, Blake talks about his idea of imagination, also referring to his paintings and engravings, and says “ to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. As a man Continua »