College English

1. William Blake
By:Maria Jacquez

2. * BLAKE WAS BORN NOVEMBER
28,1757 IN SOHO DISTRICT OF
LONDON,ENGLAND. HE WAS
HOME SCHOOLED BY HIS
PARENTS.
William Blake
*BLACK IN HIS YOUNGER YEARS HAD
VISIONS. HE SAID TO SEE AN ANGLE IN A
TREE AND GOD IN HIS WINDOW AT THE
AGE OF FOUR.*IN 1782, AT THE AGE OF 25
BLAKE MARRIED CATHERINE
SOPHIA BOUCHER. BLAKE
TAUGHT HIS WIFE HOW TO
READ,WRITE,DRAW AND COLOR.
BLAKE ALSO TAUGHT HER TO
SEE VISIONS.

3. *IN 1800, BLAKE RECEIVED AN
INVITATION FROM POET WILLIAM TO
MOVE TO THE LITTLE SEASIDE
VILLAGE OF FELPHAM AND TO
WORK AS HIS PROTÉGÉ. BLAKE
ACCEPTED THE INVITATION.
*WHEN BLAKE WAS AT FELPHAM.
HE RAN INTO TROUBLE. IN AUGUST
1803, BLAKE FOUND A
SOLDIER,JOHN SCHOLFIELD, ON
HIS PROPERTY AND DEMANDED
HIM TO LEAVE. AFTER JOHN
REFUSED TO LEAVE BLAKE USED
FORCE TO MOVE HIM OUT.JOHN
ACCUSED BLAKE OF ASSAULT AND
JOHN CLAMED THAT BLAKE HAD
DAMED THE KING. THE
PUNISHMENTS FOR SEDITION IN
ENGLAND AT THAT TIME WAS
SERVER. BLAKE WAS SCARED OF
HIS FATE. HAYLEY HIRED A LAWYER
FOR HIM, AND BLAKE WAS
ACQUITTED IN JANUARY 1804,BY
THE TIME BLAKE AND CATHERINE
*IN 1804, BLAKE BEGAN
SHOWING HIS WRITING AND
ILLUSTRATED
JERUSALEM(1804-20). HE
SHOWED HIS WORK IN
EXHIBITS. THERE WAS ONE
PUBLISHER REVIEW THAT
WROTE HIS WORK WAS
“NONSENSE,UNINTELLIGIBLE
NESS AND EGREGIOUS
VANITY” AND HE REFERRED
TO BLAKE AS “AN
UNFORTUNATE LUNATIC.”
*HE DIED AUGUST 12,1827 FROM
RECURRING BOUTS OF AN
UNDIAGNOSED DISEASE.

4. POETRY WASN’T HIS ONLY
THING THAT WAS FAMOUS
ABOUT HIM. HE ALSO DID
PAINTINGS.
At the age of four Blake was enrolled in Henry
Pars's drawing schooL, WHERE HE LEARND
TO DRAW THE HUMAN BODY OUT OF
PLASTER CASTS OF ANCIENT STATUES. aT
THE AGE OF FOURTEEN WAS AN
APPRENTICE TO AN ENGRAVER.hE WOULD
BE SENT TO WESTMINSTER ABBEY TO
DRAW TOMBS AND MONUMENTS, THAT’s
WHERE HIS LONG LIFE OF GOTHIC ART
BEGAIN.

5. The Sick rose
htIn the howling stormHas found out thy bedOf crimson joy;And his dark secret loveDoes thy life destroy.

6. thE SICK ROSE
*rhyme = A B C B
*Themes:
*sexuality- the worm penetrating a
“bed of crimson joy”. The sexuality
in this poem is dark and violent.
*love- its secret and dark and its not
good for the rose because its
making it sick
* Violence- the worm destroys the
roses life. The worms weapon is his
dark secret love and we recall that
the worm has to penetrate the
rose’s “bed of crimson joy”.

7. A Poison Tree
I was angry with my friend:I told my
wrath, my wrath did end.I was angry
with my foe:I told it not, my wrath did
grow.And I watered it in fears,Night
and morning with my tears;And I
sunned it with smiles,And with soft
deceitful wiles.And it grew both day
and night,Till it bore an apple
bright.And my foe beheld it shine.And
he knew that it was mine,And into my
garden stoleWhen the night had
veiled the pole;In the morning glad I
seeMy foe outstretched beneath the
tree.

8. A Poison Tree
*The rhyme-A A B B
*Themes:
*Plants- The speakers anger grows
into an poisonous apple that kills his
“foe”. A tree need water and sun and
care so it can grow and are speaker
shows us a primary metaphor that
shows us how anger converts from a
feeling into a destructive action.
*Emotion- this poem is about being
angry and getting even.
*Night and Day-The speaker tells us
the time of day it is.He waters his
anger both at nigh and in the morning.

9. 9
Works Cited
 "William Blake Biography." Bio.com. A&E
Networks Television, n.d. Web. 21 Mar. 2014.
 Shmoop Editorial Team. "The Sick Rose."
Shmoop.com. Shmoop University, Inc., 11
Nov. 2008. Web. 26 Mar. 2014.
 "WILLIAM BLAKE - Google Search." WILLIAM
BLAKE - Google Search. N.p., n.d. Web. 26
Mar. 2014.
 Shmoop Editorial Team. "A Poison Tree."
Shmoop.com. Shmoop University, Inc., 11
Nov. 2008. Web. 26 Mar. 2014.

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