Transcript William Blake presentation

"I have a dream"
Ray Charles
Susan B. Anthony
The Founding Fathers
Mahatma
Gandhi
Victoria Robertson
Natalie Dean
Anjali Premkumar
Lucas Macaluso
Piyusha Sane
William Blake
"The imagination is not a State; it is the Human
Existence itself.”
Childhood and Religion
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Childhood
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Read the Bible at a very young age
Entered Art School by age 10
Started writing poems by age 12
Religion
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Saw visions of angels, monks, Virgin Mary, and
historical figures
Devout Christian
Believed that the church doctrine was primarily used
as a form of social control
 thought similarly about all institutions, especially
industry
Marriage and Printing
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Marriage
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Married Catherine Boucher
She was a poor, illiterate woman
Close, loving marriage
Printing
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Opened print shop
Developed illuminated printing technique
 Engraving a poem’s text and illustration on the
same plate
Publication and Death
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Publications
Songs of Innocence- 1789
o Songs of Experience- 1795
o Show the "the two contrary states of the human soul”
o He did illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy
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Death
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Died at age 69
Died singing “of the things he saw in heaven”
Little Boy Lost/ Found
(pg. 757)
-Have you ever been lost?
Purpose
What do you think the main purpose was?
o What do you think happened to the father?
o How did you interpret the mother?
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The Tyger
(pg. 758)
-What do you think of when you hear the word
tiger?
Purpose
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What do you think Blake is trying to tell us?
Why do you think tiger is spelled "tyger"?
"Did he who made the lamb make thee?"