Weeks 7-8

1. As a group discuss one sonnet other than the two Shakespeare one we looked at and decide what the central conceit is and how it develops...

2. Why are Blakes' poems reproduced in the reader divided into poems of 'Innocence' and 'Experience'?

3. Can you find some colour plates of the poems to upload?

4. How do the images and text work together in the examples we are looking at?

5. How is Blake considered in the history of English literature, and why?

6. Can you discover more popular cultural references to Blake?

7. Analyse one poem by Blake according to the schema I introduce in class week 7-8.

8. What was the impact of Rousseau’s revolutionary idealism on
Blake?

9. How does Rousseau’s assertion of women’s equality read to a modern audience?

10. What really happened at Villa Diodatti??

tbc...

Chaucer Questions

1. A fabula is a story and it is about the order in which events happen. The tale of the loathely lady is one because it tells the course of events of King Arthur, as he rode on his horse through Inglewood.

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