09/13/16

William Blake: “The Lamb” and “The Tyger”

Why do people often associates something that’s good or benevolent with God or Jesus Christ and disassociates/ questions those that are wicked or immoral? We can see in the poem, “The Lamb”, Blake readily associates the “lamb” with Jesus Christ because of its benevolent nature. However, Blake questions whether if the creator of the lamb was also the creator of the tygre because of its vile nature.

 

09/11/16

John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn

In the poem, Ode on a Grecian Urn, John Keats exclaimed that “Beauty is truth, truth is beauty.” Keats reasoning behind this thinking is because when his generations is long gone, the urn will remain, revealing the truth of the past.

How can Keats be so sure that “beauty is truth, truth is beauty”? Rather, wouldn’t the beauty , itself, mystify the truth?