William Blake's Philosophy

 

Willaim Blake's philosophy

(His time and reaction )

Willaim Blake is a born Mystical and visionary writer of the 18th century. He is romantic among the classicals, visionary among the rationals and imaginary among the intellectuals. In fact, he comes in the category of Preromantics, it means the Romantic before the Romanticism. He is born when the industrial revolution is about to come and when he starts observing the world with his innocent eyes. He sees nothing but hypocrisy, mechanism, materialism, hatred, corruption, etc in his surroundings. But, when he is 4 hears old, he sees God for the first time in his vision. While, in reality, induatrial revolution has started in England. So, from his very childhood, he stands apart from the hypocrisy, hatred and corruption of the world of England. 

The other reason for his being a visionary or imaginary writer is the irritation of established norms, ideas and customes of society. From which he is fed up and winks his eyes towards them and yawns towards revolt and revolution. In fact, he is very impressed from the philosophy of  rebels of French Revolution. In fact, he is as sensitive by nature as imaginary one. That's why he cannot bear cruelties of man to man. Not to speak of man, he cannot tolerate the groaning of any animal because near to him animals are just like as human beings or they are as sensitive as men.

The other side of the mirror is that he is sensuous poet like Keats and wants to please others alongwith himself by sounds and sights of trees, stars, moon, sun, shadow, gardens , flowers, etcand he uses all these things as symbols because he is symbolic writer and is famous for using symbols. For example, he uses symbol of rose for maturity of love, net for depression, children or garden for innocence, time for capturing , etc. The reason for his symbolic or visionary or mystic poetry is nothing but his want for escaping from the depression and monotony , tension, hypocracy, and dark plight of the poor who have npthing but dark future. In fact, the age, in which he develops mentally and physically in an age of depression, of war, of haunting fear, of diseases, of revolution, of transmigration because when he opens his eyes in this world, industrial revolution is about to come, when he grows, he observes the miserable conditions of down troddens who have no value, no future, no ideas, no philosophy but dark impacts of circumstances on their mind and soul. When he comes to maturity, he happens to see the cruelties and atrosities  of French Revolution in which he observes the sagacity of humanity.

The pith and marrow of the whole discussion is that conditions, ever changing circumstances play a vital role in development of writer like Blake, who is born as nature poet. He is mystic, imaginary, visionary, double vision writer and is far from hypocrisy, cruelty and corruption of the world.