William Blake Research Paper

William Blake was an English printmaker, painter and poet. Although most of his works did not receive much recognition during his lifetime, they are today considered as an important figure in the poetry of visual arts and poetry. The glorification of children is one of the dominant features in William Blake's romantic feature of poetry (Blake, David and Harold, 32). His poems, together with other writers of his time, gave rise to the Romantic era as they mostly emphasized instinct, feeling and pleasure above mannerism and formality. Although most of his works are dedicated towards the future, most of their important and mostly thematic works are preoccupied with the glory and suffering from the past. Emphasis of passion and feeling in Blake

Blake's poems did not feature children literature, but the content and the simplistic language that he applied responded to the characteristics of children poetry and didactic fiction. The social critique and political elements that Blake applied in his several writings distinguished him from other children writers. Blake uses children to depict the natural innocence of these children where they can freely mingle and participate and an adult outlook that they learn as they grow that serves to deny them their childhood (Perkins, 46). Blake reveals the abuse of children in different ways, showing how the society corrupts the imagination and inherent innocence of the children, while also failing to care for their emotional and physical needs. His interest does not aim at portraying the psychology of the child but rather he contrasts the children to the world that, according to him, has gone badly

To some people, the writings of Blake, although they were written in the romantic era that was filled with high mortality and child abuse, went past the contemporaries in their assumption of the susceptibility to death. However, children have a significant and symbolic role in presenting and revealing the social evils that existed in the society and which needed to be rectified at that period (Poirier, et al. 478).The poems also provide a strong and authorial voice that composed several messages to the young readers who soon will grow to