1. Wordsworth and Blake, A Comparrison
"Compare and contrast William Blake's "The Tyger" (1793) and William Wordsworth's "Strange fits of passion I have known" (1798/1800). ... Instead of the serious genres, high subjects, and elevated style and decorum of the Neo-Classic period, Romanticism heralded an era of social, political and literary revolution, new beginnings and "high possibilities". ... The reference to the stars or heavens may symbolise the rigid "laws" imposed on man and poet in the preceding age of reason and restriction, whilst their weeping shows the breakdown of these barriers in the new age of Rom...
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