William Blake and the Romantic Period of Poetry

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In addition to describing Blake's artistic and creative life, this paper reviews two of Blake's greatest poems, "Laughing Song" and "The Lamb". The paper explains the different approach to each poem that Blake took and analyzes his use of literary elements, such as metaphors, similes, alliterations, allusion, apostrophe, analogy, assonance, hyperbole, irony, paradox, and personification in both writings. The paper also attempts to explain how and why Blake used the style, themes, ideas, and topics that contributed to his work being associated to the Romantic period.

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"William Blake's life spanned from 1757 to 1827. In that period, Blake was known as a successful English poet and artist throughout London circles. "In the visionary imagination of William Blake there is no birth and no death, no beginning and no end, only the perpetual pilgrimage within time toward eternity'' (Ackroyd) Blake was known to have had a great influence on the English romanticism period. But he went beyond any such school, movement, or period. Blake's poetry was an insight into the realities of human condition of the time. William Blake was born in London November 28 and as was the custom of the time christened around the eleventh of December of the same year at a local church called St. James' Church."

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