A Comparative Study of William Blakes Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience开题报告

 2022-08-06 08:54:56

1. 研究目的与意义

William Blake is a famous poet, painter and sculptor at the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. His poems show a poetic style which is completely different from that of the times he lived, breaking the shackles of the classical doctrines in 18th century poetry creation, showing strong feelings of love and hate. His poetry style is fresh and bold, the language is vivid, the themes are close to the real life(白凤欣amp;佘平,2010).He is one of the most complex and personal poets in English literature. And his poems are full of mysterious illusions, reflecting the serious problems of the real society, and also showing the beautiful state of the ideal society.

Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience have long been considered to reflect the opposite states of human soul(Blake,1992). Songs of Innocence is a companion piece to Songs of Experience, and they are unity of opposites(李筱,2008). They are the most famous poetry of William Blake, which include most of his poems. The former shows a world of love, kindness, compassion and joy, while the latter exposes the darkness of society, which arouses the research interests of both domestic and foreign scholars(应宜文,2014). There has been a saying that “For devoted poetry readers there are two William Blakes. There is sweet William, and there is mad(Daniel,1994).” Blake’s works are so complex and non-conformist in its essence in regards to the ideology of the time, therefore, they are frequently belittled and misunderstood by their contemporaries (Beer, 2005). However, they are always “rediscovered” by later critics and the literary world. Thus, Blake as a person with a very peculiar and unique philosophy uncommon to his time was not only an important poet in the past but also a very powerful poet for the modern time. The complexity, broadness of themes and the universal questions he raised have a great effect on modern thoughts and the modern audience (Clarke, 1929).Various types of symbolism and topicality of his poetry have resulted in an ever-lasting discussions and novel interpretations of his poems.

In order to get a better understanding of William Blake’s poets and to explore the differences between them, this paper makes a detailed and in-depth analysis of Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience with the method of comparative study, exploring the content structure, the language style, the rhetorical devices, the themes and other poetic devices of the poems.

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2. 研究内容和预期目标

Research contents: This article will first introduce the research background and research status, give an introduction of William Blake and his works. Then the article will compare the two poetry: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. The article will analyze the similarities and differences of the two poetry from the theme, the symbolism, the image and other poetic devices. Finally, conclusion is drawn based on the above analysis, showing the results, shortcomings of this research and its research prospects.

The key issue to be solved: Figure out the characteristics of Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience and make a comparison between them.

Outline:

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3. 国内外研究现状

1. Research background

The poems of William Blake are full of mysterious illusions, reflecting the serious problems of the real society, and also showing the beautiful state of the ideal society, the themes of which are closely related to the times in which he lives(毛雪青,2005). Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience have long been considered to reflect the opposite state of human soul. They are the most famous poetry of William Blake, which include most of his poems. The two poetry are presented in two very different styles, the former showing a world of love, kindness, compassion and joy, while the latter exposing the darkness of society, which arouses the research interests of both domestic and foreign scholars(张珣,2005).

2. Research status

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4. 计划与进度安排

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5. 参考文献

Andreea Paris.(2016).William Blake''s “The Tyger” as an Expression of the Reader''s Futile Search for Authorial Intent.East-West Cultural Passage,111-118.

Beer,J. (2005). William Blake: A Literary Life.New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Carol Leader.(2015).Evil, Imagination and the Unrepressed Unconscious: The Value of William Blake''s Satanic ''Error'' for Clinical Practice.British Journal of Psychotherapy, 31(3),311-332.

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