jy International Extended essay cover Baccalaureate ‘Canes must complet ts paze and hon giv ths covr and Bal version of re efor say or supose. CCaneldate session number Candidate ‘School number School name Sanna soain averted | way | Yow | aig Diploma Programme subjectin which his extended essay is registered: fini, uo (Foran extended essay n the area of languages, state the language and whether its group 1 or group 2.) Tie of te extended essay billion Blatad depl tof the Chatta as humans should do is expose our true identy"s and the four “virtues of delight"? we all possess © make tis world, idyllic place? The antithesis of “The Divine Image” is “The Hunan Abstract”. The tle aloxe, “Human Abstract is devoid of any sense of the divine; while Blake associates pod with an “Image”, evil is associated with the “Abstract”, giving a harsh and unconnected tone. It contrasts ‘with “The Divine nage”, emphasizing how dificult vil isto artve a as oppnsed to good. ‘This is Blake's version of how evil ist began and how it sustained, To reinfoee that “The Divine Image” i the antithesis of “The Human Absiract, the four words mer:y ily, peace * popandin3- “The Dine mage" ne 18 Iytourews poetyfeundation or/poem/172912 Tgepenax "The Dine mage” ne utp goetrfoundstion sra/poeny372932 ferent’ "The Dine Imogene tpn poetefoundatonar/potm/372932‘and love st all re-used in this poem but tis time those characteristic are given an egotistical origin. “Pity would be no more /f we didnot make somebody poor," This tine pity, which 's compassion and isa good thing depends on there being someone poor to pity. As Blake uses the word “mae”, Blake is implying that some people are forced into poverty so that ‘others can pity them and gain twisted satisfaction from this, instead of havinga fair society in “which everyone’s material needs are properly met. Blake repeats this ida to make i sink in: “And merey no more could be /Ifall were as happy as we. "As for Peace, Blake Says: “And ‘mutual fear brings Peace," This suggests that peace is not chosen positively, but rather only to avoid harm from others, Ironically, fear is what the Church does use, From this eynical beginning, Blake then explains how sin and the present unjust socal order stated, Blake personifies the worst characteristics people have, for example: “Then Cruelty hits @ snare," By personilying these characteristics Blake forces ws to form distrting mental pictures of them. “The Human Abstract shares the same conceit. a8 “A Poison Tree” an evil and deadly tree which bears «poisonous fut thts a temptation. The difference between ‘hese poems is that the tree in “A Poison Thee" is grown from the personal hate we have towards foe while the wee in “The Human Abstract one group has power and is cruel and harsh to another group who are weak and humble result fom what heppens when before them; this isa direct reference tothe Church and isthe origin ofthe ewe: "Then humility takes root ‘Underneath his Cruelty’) foot.” “The final stanza gives us the key tothe poom, thatthe "Gods of Old”, but sirifcantly not ‘he God ofthe present day so not the New Testament, searched everywhere to find this tre, only to find it growing in the human brn, This tell us thatthe existence of this tre ofthe knowledge of evils real, but only metaphorically and not literally, and that man (mainly the church) and not God is the origin ofevl™ Pity, peace and merey ae not qualities tha re "append “The Human Abstract” nes 32 ator oetyfverzoge cm/poet bk human _obstoct n! nto/wirnpoeuylserpesecom/pocs/bokumen obstect htm) "ropendt "The Human abstract ine yee pootyiverspapecon/poetsike/human strc tependi a= "The mon Abo? utp Few poctylverspagecon/poetsahe/human abstract nl erent mon Abstract ies 1212 tpufws.poetyloverseage com/poetsbske/human_ abstract it) "thisieao elena nthe mind ofan, 9 the cents metaphor fone Blakes peace poems, “Landon, where everyone has" forged morale (sgendi3, Landon lie 8), nein tat thesctully needed i “al! were as happy as we." however these qualities are setup bythe ‘Church with the purpose of empowering themselves; using fea to consol. As “humility takes ts root/ underneath his foot, te corupt institut, the church, actully abuses good qualities inorder to gain power. ‘The Chimney Sweeper" (nmocence) and “The Chinney Sweeper” (Experience) Another innocence poem is “The Chimney Sweeper". This poem i about litle boy who h ‘been sod by his parents tobe a chimney sweep a avery young age. The poe itd by the litle boy, s0 it is very innocent coming from a small childs point of view. What makes this oem so poignant is that the litle boy does not understand how bad his ite conditions areas he is still na state of childish innocence, simpy accepting life as iis, When he litle boy" fiend, Tom, gets his white har that “curled lke a lamb 's back, shaven off it symbolizes these lite children’s childhood being shorn away. That Tom’s hair vas whiteand ikea lamb 1crepresens innocence and purity in its assoc ‘The Hite boy, unlike the reader, cannot understand that, nd wien he sees Ter erying about his har tll him: “1ush, Tom! Never min it, for, when your head's bare, /You know that the ion with this typical symbol of Jesus s00t cannot spoil your white air! This line displays how these poor children, who are entry based on reality at that time, just accept everything. A touching part in his poem is ‘when Tom dreams that all the litle chimney sweepers are locked up in black eofins but then an angel comes with “a brig key" and sets them free, They rise tothe claws and the angel tells the boy that if he's good he'l “have God as hs father, and never want joy." This dream isa chain of typically Biblical und Blakean symbolism. 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When the angel comes and sets them fee it symbolizes how they wil ll be ‘welcome into heaven wisere they wil finaly be happy, leaving ther horrific pas, as symbolized by ther chimney bags behind, and finally have a proper father who ares for them in God. Inthe ast stanza ofthis poem, Blake makes''s powerful juxtaposition between ‘the dream fll of Hight and happiness to where the boys wake up in the dark and cold to get ‘dressed to start thet job, making you pity all the innocent child laborers, Thisis avery cleat indictment towards the Church, as they condone the ill treatment of these young chimney ‘sweeps, How could the Church permit such abuse? With it” power, the Church could Jmprove the life forthe chimney sweeps, but very litle, if any efor hasbeen ut to try and dose. The contrast ofthis poem is “The Chimney Sweeper" from “Songs of Experience”, This oem is writen as fit is dialogue, with a question and response format. Blake makes you sympathize with the chimney sweeper ashe is reduced using @ metonym Irom oy to“ inte black thing among the snow". This els the truth that the ehrmney sweeper has been ‘made sub-human, a “vhing”. By putting the snow in the background Blake pains sviking black and white contrasting image forthe reader. The parents have clothed thr boy “in he clothes of death," destning him 0 an early death, and in the last stanza, the speaker reveals ‘hat although his parents have sold him as a chimney sweeper, and have drawn out fr him this tribe fate, they ate in Church, praying: “nd are gone to praise God and His priest and king,” Ths line shows how Blake i against the Church as it permits penpe ta do ‘unpardonable things lke selling their own children, and is in league withthe sate (the King) to allow this to go on. Isao ironic that afer he parents ofthis boy have soll and abandoned him, they sil have the nerve to goto the church and pray. 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Te Charity schools wer institutions that were established to educate and care fr thous of ozphan chien n London Inthe Innoeene poem, the clean-scribbed orphans of London ow nto St Paul's Cathedral “ike Thomes warers low: "the ver wnsing staight tough the heart oF London, care along by the iavisile steam of thir innocent ats. And just asthe fldren are Tikened to flowing into the Cael, each stanza inthe poem corti two «hyming couplets suggesting the same idea of the flow ofthe children. 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The song that had ‘been sung in the Innocence poem, and had sounded so splendid, empowering the children, is reduced toa “irembling ery inthis poem, and while the children representa the mighty river of England in the Innocence poem, here they ae linked to filing crops and sunless folds. This hints towards society's views towards these children as being a waste of the nation’s resources, and symbolizes society's neglect towards them. The ineguler thyme pattern throughout the poem further emphasizes the neglect ofthese children =the inreguavty add tothe sense of deterioration ofthe subject. “Thelr ways are id with ‘horns”®, and these thors tat ine their paths link to the suffering of Christ; and as they live inan “eternal winter, lacking spring, summer or rain, where they experience nether physical comfort or the warmth of love, these children are doomed to this unnatural state by the scheming ofa system that remembers them only to defend its own morality * appends Wo} horsey expen ne2 : to feaseatoutcon/braty/aetentstlae/t wblake-soe ay tursday hi STappendi Holy hors fxperece ine hyo feossertaboutcon/iban/s tests bloe/lwblake soeohytustay hn Meepenai holy thors” fapeenes ine & pss about comin foto eblke/l- blake soe hoyhusay him ‘opendi8-"Holythurdoy" panne] in ytp/lselt abou comylibay-tet wblake/lwsake soe honed tm Repent “Nay Thursdy”[xpeenee ne 2 lytp/clsclt abou com/tbrayb-tet wbiskaflwsate se hold tm Appendix" Thussey”xperenee ine 8 Iyte/tslt about comfitaryb-texa/wbske/oubatesoe hots hm aepenci 8 Hay Tursdy” xeric nes ytou7easct abe comitrarybteters/wbake/bake soe hotness hm “appanae8-Holy TurscoyCepenenc) ine Intp/aonitt. about com/loroy/b‘ ett oe /o bloke 0: boltharsdoy hn Sppendi Wl Tardy (experince 32 btp/eanelt about com/loratyo etsaPwtake/D bake soe htrsdy kmConclusion William Blake's attude towards the Church of England and organised religin in both his Songs of Imocence and Experience is condemning one. While Blake's “Sorgs of Experience “are more directly secusstory towards the Church, “Songs of novence” display an obvious natvetg effectively questioning the morality of the Chureh, “The Church is represented as having false morality an institution tht vietimises children, and condones thei il-teatment, as seen in both“Holy Thursday” and “The Chimney ‘Sweeper. Aside from the children’s miserable lives the child in “The Chimmy Sweeper” (Experience) poom was objctified to “thing.” showing the extent of neglect, experienced by these children ftom “7eligtous” institutions; and after having been condemned 10 life of abandonment from his parents, we se their devotion tthe Church as they go to pray, showing the deplorable nature ofthe Church. In “Holy Thursday” (Experience) we saw the parading of thousands of impoverished children, cared for only on that day, to give a misleading image of the Chureh’s morality ‘The Church is represented a a repressive institution, seeking to suppress and instittionalise the human spirit as seen in “Holy Thursday” (nnocence), where restriction and conformity were imposed upon the children, and “The Human Absiract” where itis clear thatthe restrictions and rules that are imposed upon us by comrupt religious insiuts to gain power ar a result ofthe use offer to contra us and the sting up and abuse of “good” ‘qualities. “The Hunan abstract” even presents the idea ofthe Church being te soure of sin ‘on Earth, linking it tothe story of Adam and Eve (the original sin) ‘As William Blake is only accepting the New Testament an its basis of emulating the life of Jesus, and the idea tht priests and jurists are not needed to do this, “The Divine Image” shows us God's model behaviour and talks about th four vuesof "Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love" ®, going a far as to suggest that we ourselves are God, hence emphasizing the itelevance of there being church, which in tur sumariztss Blake's attitude towards it, as beng an irrelevant, corrupt, unholy insite, ¥ pependi3-“The One mage" ne 1 nef: poetrfounaation ar/paemy/272932Appendices: ‘Appendix 1": (“On Another's Sorrow") Can I see another's ane, And ot seek for kind rele?! ‘can 1266 fling tear, ‘nd not fel my sorrows sare? Con tater see his eis con 8 mother stan hear Dm ent geoan, an tan fear? No, nat aver can i be! Newer, never cant be! Hear tne smal bir's ari and cre, ‘and not st bode the nest, Pouring ety in tee breost, ‘Weeping tear on infant's tear? And not sit bot night and day, Wiping a our tears anay? (oh no! never can be! He doth give is oy to a: He becomes an infant smal, “Think nat tow canst sigh a sigh, hp/fquotatons about con/s/poents/af0n Anothes Socnd thy Maker not by: “Think nat thou canst weep a ter, ‘nd thy Makers not near (Oh He gies to us is joy, ‘nat our geet He may destoy Tl our aia see an gene He doth st by us and moan,Appendix 2°: (“A Poison Tree”) 1 was angry with my end: 1 told my wrath, my wrath ad end 1 was angry with my foe ‘and I watered lei fears, Nigh & merning with my tears: ‘dt grew both day and ight. Tul ebove an apple bright ‘And my oe beheld it shine, When the right had void the pte: I the morning lad I s00; phoma poemuntercomfpsem/opoban ree!Appendix 3": (“The Divine Image") To Mercy, Pty, Peace, and Love ‘And to these virtues of delight Retum thei thantulnes 1s God aur Fetner dear, ‘and ory, Py, Peace, and Love For Morey has a human het, Py, human fe, ‘nd Peace, the aman dress “Then every man, of every cme, ‘Tat prays in his estrss, Love, Mercy, ity, Peace ‘nd all must love the human fom, Where Mercy, Love, and Pty evel “There God ls dwelling te. hap fun potroundetion ey pote 172912Appendix 4": (“The Human Abstract”) If we di not make somebody peer, ‘And mutual earrings Pesce, ‘Then Cruty kts 2 snare, He et down with nly far, "Then Humity takes ts rast ‘Seon spreads the eisral shade Cr Mystery over is hea ‘nthe eaterpieanat hy Feed onthe Mystary ‘Ana itbears the frat of Bsc, andthe raven his cast has made Init thickest sade, ‘The gods ofthe earth and sea * nepfun potroverspge om/oets/ke/hunanobtethSought trough nature to fad this ree, Sut eheir search was alin van ‘Tere grows one nthe human ran,Appendix S*: (“The Chimney Sweeper” (Innocence)) ‘And my father ld me wile yet my tongue Cou searcely ery weep! weep! weep! weep! ‘So your enirmneys sweep, and in 09 I sleep, "her's tle Yom Dacre, who eld when hi he, That cule ikea amb’ back, was shaved: so Isa Hush, Tea! nevermind it, for when your heads bare, ‘You know that the sot cannot spol your wie hie” [As Tom was asleaping, Ne had seh ih, ‘That thousands of sweepers, Dick Joe, Ned, and ack, Wire aio tem locked up in eas of black. ‘and by came an angel who nae a bight key, ‘And he opened the coffins an se them al ae ‘Ten down 8 green pin leaping, laughing, ey run, Then naked ond wht, al thelr bags et bend, They #88 upon clouds and spor inthe wind ‘athe angel tld Tom, i hed be a ood boy, He'd have God for his father, and never want oy ‘and 50 Tom awoke; and we ase in the da, ‘and got with our bags and our brushes to work "Though the merning was col, Tom was happy and warm; So falda their duty they need not tear harm S hup//mom oie ieratrecam/pce/t24/Appendix 6%: (“The Chimney Sweeper” (Experience)) [Alte bic thing among the sno, Crying! weep! ep in notes of woe! there ae thy father and motner? Say ~ “They are ath gone up to te church 0 pray. ‘Because {was happy upen the heath, ‘And sled among the winters snow, ‘Thay dthed me nthe clethes a deat, ‘And taught me 0 sing the notes of woe. "And because Lam happy and dance and sng, ‘na 210 gone to praise God and His priest and king, ‘who made up 2 heaven of ou misery. > ha jr oterangsetings a kf ohp he poems/100he chimney espe?Appendix 7”: (“Holy Thursday” (Innocence)) “Twas on a Holy Thursday, their Inacent faces clean, ‘The eldren walking two an two, n red and blue and green Tito the high dome of Pau they ke Thames waters ow. ‘Ovnata mutttuce they seemed, these Mowers of London ton! ‘Seated in companies they si, with radanee al thei own “The hum of motes was tere, but multitudes of lambs, ‘Thousands of ite boys ana gis raising thai nnocant hanes. Now ikea mighty wind they rage to heaven the vice oF 09, (Or ke narmeniousthunderngs the seat at heaven aman ‘eneath them st the aged men, wise auardans of te poor ‘Tn cherish pty, lst you eve an ange rm your door. hp//an potryfoundtion.ra/poem/272937,Appendix 8%: (“Holy Thursday” (Experience) 1 this nly thing to see Babes reducd to misery, Fe wth cod and usurious hand? 1s that trembing cry 8 sang? Can tbe song of iy? [And 40 many children poor? Risa land of poverty! And their sun does never shine, [And tir lds are beak & bare, eternal wintar there. rd whereeer the rain does fal, Babe can never hunger there, Nor poverty the mind appa * fies bout. comMron/etexs/wblte/b-wblake so hls tmAppendix 9 (“London”) 1 wandered through each chatarea street, Near where the chartered Thames doe fm, ‘A mark in every face meet, In every ery of everyman, never infant's cry of fea, “The mind-orged manacles 1 her: How the chimney-sweeper's cry ver blackening church apps, ‘and the hapless side’ sigh uns in bloes down place-wal ‘5 most, tough midnight sveets 1 hear Bist the new-born infants tear, ‘hd iights with plagues te marsage-hesre, * npzpwww postefoundstienere/poen/372929Bibliography http//wnww bbe. co.ub/arts/romantics/blake. shtml hep/fonwu.r.umd.edu/praxis/deleure/bauich/bavleh ht http://w poemhunter-com/wiliam-blake/blogr=phy/ http/en wikipedia.org/wik/Romanticsm https /en.wikipedis.org/wik/Industrial_ Revolution http naw goldenessays.com/free_essays/3/poetty/wllamblake. shir http://en.wikipediaorg/wiki/Urizen htep/fen.wikipedia.org/wik/Old_Testament -ntpi/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New Testament bttpi//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of Terror hutp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Wiliam _Blake httpy//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_of_Innocence.and_of Experience http:/auotations about.com/cs/poemiyris/a/On_Ancthers_Sor.htm http://www. poemhunter.com/poem/a-poisontree/ htep://unwn, poctryfoundation org/poem/172912 http://w poetryloverspage.com/poets/blake/human_abstract html utp Avuw-online-iterature.com/poe/628/ https mwawblakesongsettings.co.uk/index.php/the-poems/100-the-chimney sweeper http:/wwew_poetryfoundation.ore/poem/172917 hitpi/lassiclt about.com ibrary/b-etexts/blake/bl-wblake-soe-holythursday htm https/wnwn.poetryfeundation.ore/peem/172929,https /wwewune.edu/cshel3/Blake/PoemAnalysis Atm! http://w gradesaver.com/songs-ofinnacence-and-of-experience/study-gulde/section38/ http//voices yahoo.com/an-analysis-blakes-chimmney-sweeper-poems-33363html English and Media Centre (EMC) Willam Blake CD