RELATION BETWEEN PAINTINGS AND POEMS IN WILLIAM BLAKE.
Some authors mark their tendencies and sometimes their likes within their plays; they seem to evidence their thoughts and wishes in their works, some of them are really keen to nature, some others prefer love as a topic for their plays, but in this specific case, William Blake is one of the writers for whom religion and art are absolutely important and the basis of his works due to the close relation he had with them, for that reason it deserves a different treatment and a more conscious way of working on it.
Since he was little he had very close approachings to religion and art, due to his father's beliefs on the Swedenborgian philosophy. Swedenborg was a man who later on inspired Blake in his works, he had a specific theory about religion and life itself, for him, man was the creator of his own hell or heaven. As his father took this as his religious point of view about life so did Blake; in his works we notice a quite important way of representing eligion as the axle of a person's life, all this is combined to Blake's experiences as a visionary, he was thought to see and talk to the virgin Mary, the archangel Gabriel, and other angels and spirits; this started when he was just a child when on his dreams he saw monsters and strange creatures, after, they became the Holy figures we all know about the catholic church, although he did not believe in any special religion because of the prison they create for the human's soul and internal energy, most of his poems have very marked references to holy symbols and to the Bible, like lambs, shepherds, the apple, the garden, etc. .
This aspect is clearly seen in his poem "The Lamb"", where he makes an allusion to God as the creator and the owner of all the creatures in the world, and as the one who calls himself the Lamb.