Romanticpoet

- WilliamBlake,Romantic poet,WilliamBlake (1757-1827),2.LifeStoryWilliamBlakewasborninabusinessfamilyinLondonin1757.Heeducatedhimselfthroughself study.Whenhewas14,hewasapprenticedtobeanengraver andthenmadehislivingbyengravingtoillustratetheworksfor variouspublishers.HewroteromanticpoemsandsupportedtheFrenchRevolution.InhisoldageBlakegaveuppoetrytodevotehimselftopaintingandengraving.In1827,Blakediedinpovertyandloneliness.,The introduction of William Blake,1.StatusLiterarily Blakewasapre-RomanticoraforerunneroftheRomanticpoetryofthe19thcentury,showingcontemptfortheruleofreason,opposingtheclassicaltraditionofthe18thcentury,andtreasuringtheindividualsimagination.,Politically Blake was a rebel, making friends with those radicals. He strongly criticized the capitalists cruel exploitation. He cherished great expectations and enthusiasm for the French Revolution. He once said that the “dark satanic mills left men unemployed, killed children and forced prostitution”.,The main works of the author.,3.Poetical Sketches Blakesfirstcollectionofpoemsis namedPoeticalSketches,inwhichhewasstronglyopposedtotheclassical traditioninpoetrycomposingofthe 18thcenturynotonlyinformbutalso incontent.PoeticalSketchesisa collectionoflyricalpoems,whichare highlymusical,andsomeofthem soundlikeanvilmusic,rhythmic,shortandbrief.(Ananvilisalargeheavy blockofirononwhichasmithhammersheatedmetalintoshape.),SongsofInnocenceSongsofInnocencecontainspoemsobviouslywrittenforchildren,whoareusuallyconsiderednaiveandinnocent.Byusingthelanguagewhichevenlittlebabiescan learn,Blakesucceedsindescribingthehappyconditionofachild beforeitknowsanythingaboutthe painsofexistence,orwecan say,beforeitgetsanyexperiencesoflife.Hereeverythingseemstobeinharmony.However,insomeofthepoems,wecanalsofind racialdiscriminationandsuffering.,SongsofExperienceInSongsofExperience,apieceofmuchmorematurework,theatmosphereisnolongersunnybutsadandgloomy.Evilisfoundeverywhereinthisworld.Thepoetdescribespicturesofpovertyandmiseryandshowsthesufferingsofthemiserable.Heimpliesthepoorshouldsavethemselvesthroughpassionaterebellion,throughrevolution.Nowhehassethimselfagainstthecapitalistworld.,Writingfeatures1.Blakewriteshispoemsinplainandirectlanguage.2,Hepresentshisviewinvisualimagesratherthanabstractideas. 3.Symbolisminwiderangeisadistinctivefeatureofhispoetry,The tuger,The tugerTyger!Tyger!Burningbright Intheforestsofthenight,WhatimmortalhandoreyeCouldframethyfearfulsymmetry?,老虎老虎！老虎！黑夜的森林中 燃烧着的煌煌的火光， 是怎样的神手或天眼 造出了你这样的威武堂堂,InwhatdistantdeepsorskiesBurntthefireofthineeyes?Onwhatwingsdareheaspires?Whatthehanddareseizethefire?,你炯炯的两眼中的火 燃烧在多远的天空或深渊？ 他乘着怎样的翅膀搏击？ 用怎样的手夺来火焰？,And what shoulder, and what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? and what dread feet?,又是怎样的膂力，怎样的技巧，把你的心脏的筋肉成？当你的心脏开始搏时，使用怎样猛的手腕和脚胫,What the hammer? What the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What he anvil? What dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp?,是怎样的槌？怎样的链子？ 在怎样的熔炉中炼成你的脑筋？ 是怎样的铁砧？怎样的铁臂 敢于捉着这可怖的凶神？,When the stars threw down their spears, And waterd heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?,群星投下了他们的投枪。 用它们的眼泪润湿了穹苍， 他是否微笑着欣赏他的作品？ 他创造了你，也创造了羔羊？,Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright In the forests of the night,What immortal hand or eye Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?,老虎！老虎！黑夜的森林中 燃烧着的煌煌的火光， 是怎样的神手或天眼 造出了你这样的威武堂堂？,Form The poem is comprised of six quatrains in rhymed couplets. The meter is regular and rhythmic, its hammering beat suggestive of the smithy that is the poems central image. The simplicity and neat proportions of the poems form perfectly suit its regular structure, in which a string of questions all contribute to the articulation of a single, central idea.,summaryThe poem begins with the speaker asking a fearsome tiger what kind of divine being could have created it: What immortal hand or eye/ Could frame they fearful symmetry? Each subsequent stanza contains further questions, all of which refine this first one. From what part of the cosmos could the tigers fiery eyes have come, and who would have dared to handle that fire? What sort of physical presence, and what kind of dark craftsmanship, would have been required to twist the sinews of the tigers heart?,The speaker wonders how, once that horrible heart began to beat, its creator would have had the courage to continue the job. Comparing the creator to a blacksmith, he ponders about the anvil and the furnace that the proje