Enlightenment, Western european intellectual motion of the 17th-18th century in which ideas involving God, reason, mother nature, and man were combined into a worldview that encouraged revolutionary developments in art. Central to Enlightenment thought were the utilization and party of reason. For Enlightenment thinkers, received power, whether in knowledge or religious beliefs, was to be at the mercy of the inspection of unfettered intellects. The search for a rational religion led to Deism; the more radical products of the application of reason to religious beliefs were skepticism, atheism, and materialism. The Enlightenment produced modern secularized ideas of mindset, Romanticism was response resistant to the Enlightenment, it emphasized the average person, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the non-public, the spontaneous, the psychological, the visionary, and the transcendental. a general exaltation of feeling over reason and of the senses over intellect
Romanticism, dangerous, as you will see even as we do the Gothic, feelings were seen to be destructive and dangerous to society especially in women. Goethe a German poetry of the Enlightenment, although some of his writings have felt quite Loving, once said that 'everything thing that I call good I call the Classical and everything nasty and vile I call the Intimate. . Let us discuss it through type of plate.
P3 L8 :physical energy as contrasting the still contemplation of reason, and mental energy like love and hate.
P3 L11-12 :religion demonized opposites and stated that only 1 must be right. Therefore faith created good and bad. This may be another irony but it was also a significant matter to the Romantics and again you can see him blending things up expressing that Good and Evil are became a member of, now like heaven and hell.
P3 L12-13:good is the passive that obeys Reason' this may be a referral to the Philosopher Kant or his mentality. Blake is showing here what Good and Bad have been regarded as. Good is intended to end up like Reason, still and passive, Christianity has often been criticized as a religious beliefs which includes been unaggressive and actively seeking anything, this can be seen in the seclusion that monks lead. A good Christian is often or was then viewed as silent and obedient to the will of God. Evil, Blake is proclaiming, was the label given to 'the effective springing from Energy'.
P3 L14: Here Blake is using the Enlightenment product labels or historical brands of 'Good is Heaven. Evil is Hell. ' That is Blake being ironic again as you will see he is stating that this isn't just so.
P4 7-8: Blake condemns the theory that God will torment man for 'Eternity' to be simply human: for having feelings and wants.
P4 10-12: Here he is saying the Body are Soul are one, and signed up with, your body is the area of the spirit which is discerned by the senses The Soul and body need each other for the entire real human experience.
P4 13-15: Emotion and energy is the only path to have or appreciate life and this important substance for life from the Body. Reason does have its part though, for uncheck emotions and desires are dangerous, therefore Reason 'is the bound or outward circumference of Energy'. This essentially means that it is the fence to keep Energy jogging havoc and being harmful, it is not however the prison warden. Energy is now free range.
P4 L14: Energy is Eternal Pleasure. It is a delight to obtain emotions, dreams, energy generally it is what makes being alive worth while. Whether or not we feel hate there is certainly some joy in that. The fact that people can feel it. There's a Latin motto or dictum which looks rather extravagant to appear off if you can remember it which is specifically important here to what Blake says. 'DiversitasDelectat' which means variety is the spice of life.
P5-6 L4-5: Once reason has located its tyrant's grasp over desire, desire starves and becomes weaker and weaker till it is only a shadow of itself and almost crippled. To Blake and the Romantics this might be classed as a tragedy although previously such action might have been regarded as a victory over evil.
P5-6 L15-17: The interpretation of the Devil here's open it might imply the Romantics, Milton or Job's Satan, I really believe Blake was more willing at this point to indicate the Milton Devil. What the Devil means here's Energy, Reason being only strong enough to restrain poor desires but it addittionally means that Reason cause a split and section causing the two great opposing forces Good and Evil. Again Blake is poking fun at Enlightened thought declaring it created an bad, the section that on one side demeans the real human spirit and on the other it increases it to something divine.
P5-6 L18-20: Reason is a properly acceptable thing to get but devoid of Desire one does not know how to use it. .
P5-6 L20-22: Jehovah is another name for God. When Blake talks about him dwelling in the flaming hearth it could imply one or both of two things: One, that the true God is Blake's Devil or two, that the flaming flames is Energy and that's where God lives and not in the stillness of Reason.
Memorable Nice Blake discussing the 'fires of hell', be discussing human encounters of feeling and desire. He's enjoying how these are harnessed and augmented by 'Genius' the bohemian kind of life style, the life filled with both Reason and Energy.
P6-7 L8: Another humorous juxtaposition 'the abyss of the five senses, ' Blake is poking fun at the 'Angels' and chatting again about how the senses which link the heart and body collectively are located in the realm of Energy not Reason. One cannot really reason out the senses, .
The Proverbs of Hell take the discourse of four plates. They could be seen as a satire of Old Testament. Blake exhibits the ideals and idioms of Romanticism as he views it
P7 L3: Blake assumes supposedly that the smart will learn from problems or too much excess of something, however only with that excess, say of drinking and then obtaining a hangover, do they find their way to intelligence. Religious doctrine has gone to resist all temptation and therefore be called sensible.
P7 L4: Prudence is a thing of 'reason' and incapacity is exactly what becomes of desire manacled by reason. Prudence personified as a 'abundant unappealing old maid' means that she actually is somebody who has squandered her life, her potential for joy through using her riches rather than answering the calls of love therefore being kept a virgin also indicating unmarried.
P7 L6: A worm when chop just increases the lacking member back again, this proverb runs on the lines of Nietzsche's what doesn't destroy me makes me more robust.
P8 L1-2: Prisons are where one pays the price for your wrongdoings to the state of hawaii. A brothel is where one offers the body and Cathedral is where one markets one's heart and soul. Also we've prisons because we've laws and regulations and prisons are a symbol of abuse here. We have brothels, Blake says, because we've religion which makes sex wrong or love-making before marriage wrong.
P8 L6: Don't be ashamed of God's work. Girl was made beautiful and shame of her form is foolish and perhaps Blake might be stating with a twist of irony that it is also irreligious.
. P8 12: Joys impregnate the spirit and human being experience. Sorrows bring forth from the soul possibly its strength or those happy recollections to relieve some of the pain.
P8 L21: The cistern can only contain water which might stagnate therein a fountain is continually jetting out drinking water; another allegory of the opposition between Reason and Energy.
P8 L22: Unclear in interpretation but this may be taken to imply that your brain or soul occupies no space or most of space therefore one thought may do the same.
P9 L10: When normal water is 'standing up' this means it continues to be rather than moving and keeping fresh it becomes stagnant and dangerous to drink. If something is held rigidly to a certain form that form becomes stagnant. Latin is a language which has become stagnant as it no longer is used no longer produces. Societies can stagnate through the rigorous enforcement of custom such as this might be an allusion to religious beliefs especially Christianity which Blake may have seen as out of date at that time. In fact Christianity was viewed as outdated a great deal by the finish of the next century Friederich Nietzsche announced that 'God was deceased' meaning no more useful in modern culture which had developed him out of existence.
P10 L7: Beauty comes not from stillness, form and order but from exuberance which is described in my dictionary as: 'superabundance, unwanted, copiousness, profusion, luxuriance, lavishness. ' It really is lavish and in high spirits like probably aspect is.
P10 L14: Blake feels that nature with out man is barren, again hoping to become listed on to forces in concert man and character. Also can be seen as a grievance to how far man has filled the planet earth that he can only be found where character is barren, like deserts.
P14 L10-11: This blessed open fire or devastation will commence with a noticable difference of sensual excitement of the energies. These energies will most presumably develop and become fire, it is energy and excess of it that will strip the rotten and corrupt and make everything holy, the energy will transcend from Hell to heaven and unite both.
P14 L12-13: Before this relationship of two opposing makes can occur on the large scale, whatever separates them must be united by the populous on the small scale. Your brain and body must be united the fallacy or their dual life must be expunged. This is the only way forward.
Basically Relationship of Heaven and Hell is a satirical work which expresses many of the ideas of Romanticism. Here Blake is both insightful ironic. Blake is convinced that humans aren't naturally good they can be given birth to with the potential for both 'good and wicked'. This poem is similar to making an omelet, Blake is whisking ingredients together which have been separated and bought by the Enlightenment The Enlightenment is also known as 'The Age group of Reason' which is exactly what it basically was, reason was the most notable of fashion, one was conquering desire and thoughts, which Blake message or calls energies, and regulating themselves with reason. Blake says any particular one needs opposites to can be found together for a full real human experience or life. Emotion has to enter into the mix we live human in the end, but in Intimate we try to putting things back again mutually again and combining everything up, an integral word to remember with Romanticism is 'unity' unity in the arts and human life. You see how Blake doing that with his ideas about opposites, thoughts and that Heaven and Hell are getting hitched and fusing together
