February 25

He describes the nature he has been surrounded by before in the graves the bones were collected from. He says his creation was beautiful but only his way of beautiful. His creation had long black hair along with black straight lips and was huge. The human body can be apart of nature and beauty. The progress he explains he had to go through on his own makes it obvious he stuck to what he wanted to do or be. "...I was thus engaged heart and soul, in one pursuit". Some of that individual progress included his father encouraging him most of the way. The sickness did not stop any progress.

February 11, 2015

The settings of the poems the poets describe in a exotic way represent the Romantics. They give us an image to understand their surroundings at the time. The nature that they go deeply into details is almost like a fantasy they create.

February 8, 2015

              The mariner's lifelong penance was to get his story out. He will spread his words of wisdom and warn the other of his depression and how to avoid it. The Mariner tells his listeners to respect everything of God. He will preach this forever. The listener's are happy because they can view the world in a different view. They have his story to look back to and see how it may get worse.

February 5, 2015

           Our modern society is accurately described in "The World Is Too Much With Us". People today do not appreciate the nature that surrounds us or any given opportunities and we do not realize it until it is too late. We make ourselves useless to the world. People are to focus on the wrong things and are too busy to stop and take in the overwhelming world. Like the speaker said we have sold our souls to whatever it is. Modern society has completely ignored nature and it's beauty.

February 4, 2015

1.
a) the lamb is a universal symbol of innocence because Blake describes them as little, soft and gave us the softest clothes and sacrificed their wool
b) the tiger symbolizes experience because it is fearful and is shows evilness or the dark side.
c) yes Blake reasoning for presenting archetype in pairs shows the difference between the two and makes it simple to understand each one separately

2.
Blake's usage of alliteration in both "The Lamb" and "The Tyger" helps emphasizes what he is trying to represent in these poems because it makes it stand out and allows us to catch on to something obvious.      

3.
a) "The Lamb" helps me understand the innocence of Tom in the second stanza in "The Chimney Sweeper" because Blake compares his bald head to a shaved back of a lamb they have no clue why they are in the situation they are in and why people are taking advantages
b) They do not know any better than to go through the struggles and while they are in them they still don't know because of how young or innocent they are

4.
who is suffering?      why?                                                      significance to that time
The young boys      they are sold or put into                           no law for child labor, mistreated
                              the chimney sweeps and that's abuse

the family               taking care of the baby                             they didn't have enough money

5.
the cat thinks he is big as a tiger

6.
a) yes they all have a representation of innocence or experience relating to other poems sometimes
b) "The Lamb" and "infant sorrow" because they relate and people have much sympathy for young little creations

7.
a) yes, poets usually express their time period
b) "The Chimney Sweeper" showed us with the young boys went through during that time