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        <title><![CDATA[I do not think that you need to choose among the four choices. An...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I do not think that you need to choose among the four choices. An effective literary symbol can be anyone of those in addition to a few more. Let me go through your choices.
1. if people recognize the literary symbol, then it is effective to some degree. Also a recognizable symbol does not need to be commonplace. For the idea of redemption has been done so much, but if it is done well, it is powerful.,
2. A literary symbol should have multiple...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[To be effective, a literary symbol should be:]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[To be effective, a literary symbol should be:]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:23:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Yes. William Blake is a known pantheist. As you know, a Pantheist is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Yes. William Blake is a known pantheist. As you know, a Pantheist is person who holds to the metaphysical argument that God is everything around us, and not a separate entity for which we need to build a specific path to encounter.
As part of the Romantic Pantheist movement, Blake is also joined by Coleridge, Wordsworth, even Virgil, and many more.
The evidence of his believes lays in several of his works, namely in The Marriage of Heaven and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 12:43:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Is William Blake a pantheist? Prove with illustrations from his works.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Is William Blake a pantheist? Prove with illustrations from his works.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 11:50:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Industrial Revolution built a middle class of workers who had, for...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Industrial Revolution built a middle class of workers who had, for the first time in history, access to a more comfortable lifestyle because of increase of accessible products, increase in wages and decrease in illness. This economic and material gain came at the expense of the air and the land.
The smokes of the Industrial Revolution became infamous and, more importantly, choking. They obscured the view of and access to Nature. Poets like...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:31:18 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This question has been previously asked and answered. Please see the...]]></title>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:31:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Compare "The Lamb" and "The Tyger".
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        <description><![CDATA[Compare "The Lamb" and "The Tyger".
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        <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:32:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How did the Industrial Revolution affect William Blake's poetry?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How did the Industrial Revolution affect William Blake's poetry?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:15:23 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Part of what motivate the Romantic thinkers like Blake and Wordsworth to...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Part of what motivate the Romantic thinkers like Blake and Wordsworth to believe so passionately in their ideas was the Industrial Revolution.  It is almost as if they carved their philosophy as a diametric opposite of this moment in history.  Whereas the Industrial Revolution stressed homogeneity and interchangeable parts to maximize production, Romantic thinkers argued for individuality and uniqueness.  Whereas the Industrial Revolution...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:49:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The contemporary French revolution was highlighted in Wordsworth's...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The contemporary French revolution was highlighted in Wordsworth's Solitary Reaper.Blake's London poems represent the the modern metropolitan city of  London. Songs of Experience and Songs of Innocense, Marriage of Hell and Heavean.
Wordsworth and Blake were part of the Romantic movement. People were fed up with the pollution and how their daly lives were becoming so far removed from nature, that the IR brought to Europe. Due to this,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:26:17 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Discuss the effect of the Industrial Revolution on the poetry of William...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Discuss the effect of the Industrial Revolution on the poetry of William Blake and William Wordsworth.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:55:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The primary symbolism in Blake's poems would lie in how each personify...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The primary symbolism in Blake's poems would lie in how each personify the central animal.  In "The Lamb," Blake uses the animal to symbolize innocence.  The poem centers on the idea that the lamb represents a sense of childlike wonder, and a sense of hope and purity.  The cadence of the poem presents itself in a very simplistic and akin to a child, which substantiates the theme of innocence.  This is opposed to "The Tyger," where the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 1 Oct 2009 17:20:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Discuss the symbolism William Blake used in his poems "The Lamb" and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Discuss the symbolism William Blake used in his poems "The Lamb" and "The Tyger."]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 1 Oct 2009 12:17:05 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The "Tyger" is chosen, I think, because it is not only the most...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The "Tyger" is chosen, I think, because it is not only the most beautiful of all big game animals but because it leads a solitary life, unlike a lion, which hunts in prides.
Blake's poetry is fraught with double meaning to parallel the duality of God, who is both wrathful and loving, here and not here.  As a side note, T. S. Eliot and Flannery O'Connor also depict Christ as a soul-hungry tiger, hunting man for his soul.
Also, there is duality...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 06:46:14 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why has Blake chosen a tiger for this poem, instead of other animals...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why has Blake chosen a tiger for this poem, instead of other animals which may have similar characteristics?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:35:34 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Blake's work often falls into its own category; he was a philosopher, a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Blake's work often falls into its own category; he was a philosopher, a spiritualist, a visionary. His work, however, is clearly romantic in the tradition of Romanticism as it developed in Europe and then in the United States. "The Tyger" reflects Romanticism in its basic subject and content. Blake raises and explores a primary spiritual question: the very nature of God. Romantics turned away from conventional thinking, rejected the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:23:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How is the poem "The Tyger" romantic? (Not love but in the romanticism...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How is the poem "The Tyger" romantic? (Not love but in the romanticism era.)]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[There can be much to suggest that Blake played a defining role in the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There can be much to suggest that Blake played a defining role in the Romantic Era.  The most persuasive evidence would be that his ideas in both thought and art were prior to any other significant Romantic Poet of the time.  Wordsworth develops his exploration of Romantic thematic concepts after Blake produces his work.  Evidence suggests that a young Wordsworth learned from the older Blake in the former's early years of writing and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 7 Sep 2009 10:01:19 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Consider Blake as an originator of the Romantic Movement in English Poetry.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Consider Blake as an originator of the Romantic Movement in English Poetry.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 7 Sep 2009 08:27:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Blake's poem, "The Lamb", represents a spiritual exploration of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Blake's poem, "The Lamb", represents a spiritual exploration of innocence and purity.  The description of the lamb indicates as much with imagery that reflects a sense of softness and child-like authenticity.  The first word of "little" helps to create this mood throughout the poem with ideas such as "softest clothing woolly  bright," "tender voice," "vales rejoicing" (symbolizing a universality regaling in the lamb's song of innocence and...]]></description>
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