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At the start of the poem, the poet William Blake has asserted the conventional Christian virtues of Mercy and Pity that presupposes negative things and a world with human suffering and poverty. The virtues also represent a passive and resigned sympathy that has no obligation to relieve suffering or create a more just world. The… Continue reading The Human Abstract Summary and Analysis: 2022

The poet asks his beloved to stand still and with a carefree mindset to listen to the poet’s lecture on true love. The poet refers to the three hours he had spent with his beloved, which refers to the initial stage that the two, the poet, and his beloved, were together. The shadows that the… Continue reading A Lecture Upon the Shadow Summary and Analysis: 2022

The Divine Image is one of the more rhetorical songs by William Blake. He speaks of both God and Man and reflects on an identity between the two.  The Divine Image Summary The poem presents four virtues: Mercy, Love, Peace, and Pity as personifications reflective of the relationship between divinity and humans. These virtues are… Continue reading The Divine Image Summary and Analysis: 2022