1. Theme of Children in Blakes Poems
Novels dealing with Social realism issues are becoming more common (which they need to) for the better of the future of adolescents in this day and age. ... Experts have claimed in articles such as "Life sucks, Timmy" that social realism novels take away a teenager's innocence. ... If today's adolescents grow up thinking life is one big fairytale then when they become the age in which they can make a difference and take action against conflicts, they wont, because they wont even be aware in what is happening unless they are told now. ... So give teenagers a chance to keep their inno...
They revolted against the artificial declamatory speeches and formal language of the neoclassical age. ... The main theme of "Ode on Intimations of Immortality" is searching for comfort or peace while realizing the loss of childhood innocence and lack of constraint. Wordsworth saw the purity and innocence in children and illustrated it in lines 63 through 67. ... Wordsworth also saw, however, how this innocence and purity was corrupted by civilization. ... Stanza VII continues illustrating this corruption and loss of innocence by describing some of the roles that the child will play throughout...
In the second part he questions his memories because of age, he is not sure the feeling is the same. ... He first describes the innocence of his childhood, then his disparity and vanity of old age and lastly, the purity of his sister. ... Wordsworth used it to express innocence and purity. ...
In "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience", Blake explored unconventional ideas of the nature of God and religion and tried to unite, or balance, his concept of innocence and experience as two different states of life and the human soul. Both "The Lamb" (Songs of Innocence) and its contrary "The Tyger" ("Songs of Experience") invite the reader to consider God and creation in different ways. ... The reference to the stars or heavens may symbolise the rigid "laws" imposed on man and poet in the preceding age of reason and restriction, whilst their weeping shows the breakdown of these ba...
America produced many renown authors during the age of American romanticism. ... These included "youth (or childlike qualities); innocence; a love of nature and a distrust of town life, [and] a corresponding uneasiness with women (Arpin, et al 120.)" ... The Romantic period celebrated man's freedom with nature, virtue found in innocence, and intuitiveness over the rational. ... His achievements include: the first successful American historical romance in the vein of Sir Walter Scott (The Spy, 1821); the first sea novel (The Pilot, 1824); the first attempt at a fully researched...