1. Religion in the Poetry of William Blake
The lamb is clothed in divine "delight" and its "woolly" coat renders a sense of sacrifice which reminds us of Christ's sacrifice. ... In Blake's personal mythology, he is called Urizen ( 'your reason') who represents Reason and a 'religion of prohibitions' On the other hand, he believed that the deity of Innocence is Jesus, gentle, human, young, functioning through love not fear. ... So Blake asserts that God is not a cosmic monarch on a distant throne but the omnipresent dweller within each receptive human soul. ... Imagination or human ete...
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