Friday, November 29, 2013

Is William Blake both a poet and a social reformer?

I think that Blake can be seen as both poet and social
reformers for a couple of reasons.  The most elemental would be that his poetry as being
a part of the Romanticism movement would qualify as making him both poet and social
reformer.  Romantic thinkers felt that their position as artists included being able to
identify areas of social change; the dominant need to transform what is into what should
be.  For example, poems such as "The Little Vagabond" help to explore the nature of the
individual and the social institution of religion.  Another reason why one could
consider Blake a social reformer would be that he was strongly connected to thinkers of
the time period who were social reformers.  Thinkers like Wollstonecraft, Goodwin, and
Thomas Paine were individuals who were able to move freely from artistic construction
into political and social actvism.  Their influence on Blake was profound and made its
way into his thinking and writing.

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