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

Blakes The Songs of Innocence & Experience and The man and wife of nirvana and Hell play an important role in the old age of romanticism and important step in romantic poetry. Looking at the both pieces as a comparison, it can be seen that Blake used two different pieces to question traditional institutions. Blake questions institutionalized morality with The jointure of enlightenment and Hell and questions the industrialize age with The Songs of Innocence and Experience. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, questions the very fabric of traditional religion through Blakes criticisms on the need for change towards political and religious freedoms. Blake attacks the ways in which society has become by comparing good and evil spell challenging the orthodoxy of conventional religion. Blake explains that large number are resisting their desires and in doing so restrain to the rules that the convention of religion has placed 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 accessibles 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 people once felt as children bringing to light such social problems as urban poverty and misery. Blake identifies the industrialization revolution and conventional religion as the problem between man and the return to the natural pass on of being. Blake insinuates that the world has lost its freedom and natural beauty from being consumed in a material world full of corruption and misery. Blake uses radical speculative 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 authentically be free.Works CitedBlake, Wil liam. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. The Broadview Anthology of British publications 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.. include the divine The life of spirit in William Blakes Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Diss. Middle Tennessee State University, 2007. Dissertations & Theses A&I, ProQuest. Web. 26 Nov. 2010.Swearingen, mob E. William Blakes Figural Politics. ELH. Vol 59, No 1 (Spring 1992). John Hopkins University Press.