In honour of William Blake, who was both a poet and an artist we designed images today based on our own visualizations of the concepts of "Innocence" and "Experience". These images then framed Blake's symbolic poems "The Lamb" and "The Tiger" which represent "the two contrary states of the human soul". We listened to songs with lyrics that reflected the "Romantic" movement in poetry (our next unit). Though Blake was classified as a "pre-Romantic" because of when he lived, his work strongly represented Romantic thought. He was a man ahead of his time.
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