Comparison of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and The Songs of Innocenc

Blakes The Songs of Innocence & discover and The Marri geezerhood of Heaven and Hell scarper an important role in the age of romanticism and important criterion in romantic poetry. Looking at the two pieces as a comparison, it can be seen that Blake used two different pieces to question tralatitious institutions. Blake questions institutionalized trust with The matrimony of Heaven and Hell and questions the industrialized age with The Songs of Innocence and Experience. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, questions the very theoretical account of traditional religion through Blakes criticisms on the need for form towards political and religious immunitys. Blake attacks the ways in which society has become by comparing good and evil while challenging the orthodoxy of conventional religion. Blake explains that pot are resisting their swears and in doing so confining to the rules that the convention of religion has put on their followers. The Songs of Innocence & Experience comm ents on the industrial revolution and the affects its had on society. Blake touches on the heartys evils that come with the industrialized revolution and the consequences of an unequal social structure. Blake comments on how the corruption of society hinders the freedoms volume once felt as children bringing to light such social problems as urban meagreness and misery. Blake identifies the industrialization revolution and conventional religion as the problem amongst man and the return to the natural state of being. Blake insinuates that the creative activity has lost its freedom and natural beauty from being consumed in a material world full of corruption and misery. Blake uses radical questioning to address the issues of conventional religion and industrialization through The Song... ... through both of his pieces that conventional religion has condemned people to confinement and that as long as there is oppression of desire no individual can truly be free.Works CitedBlake, W illiam. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. The Broadview Anthology of British Literature The Age of Romanticism.V.4 2006 44-51Blake, William. The Songs of Innocence and Experience. The Broadview Anthology of British Literature The Age of Romanticism.V.4 2006 36-44Musante, R.. Embracing the divine The life of reputation in William Blakes Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Diss. pump Tennessee State University, 2007. Dissertations & Theses A&I, ProQuest. Web. 26 Nov. 2010.Swearingen, James E. William Blakes Figural political science. ELH. Vol 59, No 1 (Spring 1992). John Hopkins University Press.