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Poems Of William Blake (2000)

by William Blake(Favorite Author)

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review 1: I can't say that I liked the majority of Blake's poems , I found them repetitive and . . . out of touch with the ordinary person's perceptions of life perhaps ? I did enjoy the cheeriness for a change , child like and innocent . But the few poems that I really treasured from this work , I was deeply moved by them . And as others have commented , I see why he was controversial , those were the poems I was expecting and got the most out of . Here was my favorite of William Blake's by far : A Poison TreeI was angry with my friendI told my wrath, my wrath did end.I was angry with my foeI told it not, my wrath did grow.And I watered it in fearsNight and morning with my tears,And I sunned it with smilesAnd with soft deceitful wiles.And it grew both day and night,Till it bore an ... moreapple bright,And my foe beheld it shine,And he knew that it was mine - And into my garden stoleWhen the night had veiled the pole;In the morning, glad, I seeMy foe outstretched beneath the tree.
review 2: Took me a while to get back into olde English (no, I am not that old, just haven't read anything similar in a while). Absolutely love the poems where he does not attempt to create something great (like a historic epic) or where he does not fall into his worship; his every day theme poems are truly beautiful, ones like How sweet I roam'd from field to field, The smile, The mental traveller, The ecchoing green, The little boy lost, etc...I also like his engraving entitled I want, which seems to excellently depict the 1990s mentality that we are still suffering from... less

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