Blake created many visually driven works that incorporated his ideas as a philosopher and artist. Both his philosophical ideas and artistic vision play a major role in his creation of “The Divine Image”. When analyzing this work the reader must pay attention to the complicated array of principles and elements of its structure. The elements and principles of the poetic work are built up with literary tools that Blake uses to convey what he feels as the important message in which the reader must obtain.

Elements are the “building blocks” of art, as putting the “blocks” or elements together create the principles. The elements of art can be broken down into simple things such as the shape, form, and structure of the piece. When these more simpler things are placed together in a particular arrangement the principles are created that express the movement, focal point, and background. When these things are brought into the world poetry the elements and principles are adapted to what makes up a poem’s structure .The elements become relative to poems and thus are meter, punctuation, and word choice and placement. The principles are applied to poe

Blake has a use of structure that goes beyond the usual realm of explanation. His use of the elements of poetic art is just as complicated as his use of the principles of poetic art but yet “The Divine Image” retains a lyrical simplicity that any reader can swallow easily. It is this reason why his works are studied by every high school and college in the United States of America. He truly grasped the idea that structure can be used as a tool in order for the reader to subliminally catch the absolute meaning or even the multitude of meanings of his poetic works. One must use a trained eye for the literary tools when analyzing this poem. The reader can grasp the philosopher, poet, and artist that Blake was but also peeks into the type of person that Blake was as well when looking between the lines.

Other than rhyme Blake chooses the use in the overall arrangement of stanza five, as not only an odd structural choice but creates an indecisive conclusion in the process. The last stanza is by itself when it comes to the repetition of word grouping. Blake chose yet another variation of repeating the same words as the other stanzas, “ Mercy”, “Pity” and, “Love”. Blake chose to leave out the word “Peace”. By doing this, the reader picks up on two different scenarios that Blake might be trying to pass off to the reader. The first of these scenarios is that “Peace” is God. This can be derived from the last two lines in which Blake writes, “ Where Mercy, Love and, Pity dwell, God is dwelling too.” Blake might be trying to say that the only difference between Man and God is that God is the element of peace for humanity to be able to exist. The second scenario is that God is everything but “Peace”. By writing that God dwells in a list of words that have been repeated throughout the poem the reader might interpret this stanza as “if one word is left out in a repeated four word phrase, then it has been decided that God does not dwell within the meaning of that particular missing word”. Blake most likely made the last stanza vague in order for the readers to decide for the

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