Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 18 AIL 1721 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Blake's Plainness
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The idea
Unit seven noted Blake's method: short poems, plain words, symbols placed and left unexplained. Nothing in The Sick Rose is hard to read and nothing in it is settled. That combination is a Romantic possibility the previous century's taste did not allow.
In practice
Plain words, unsettled symbols.
Where people slip
The earlier taste forbade this.
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