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Dr Carrol
English 467
April 24, 1 995
DISCUSS THE CONCEPT OF "ENERGY" IN REPRESENTATIVE WORKS OF BLAKE.
Blake's concept of energy reflects the ideas and the historical context of his
times. The Age of Reason 'had put emphasia on the intellect, on what was 'rational'
and had despised anything that dealt with passion, so it was inevitable that sooner or
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later the roles w o u l d ~ h i f t w f ?
"Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and
Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence." Plate 3, which is the
argument of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is fundamental in order to understand
Blake's concept of eAergy, because it starts to define it. Energy then is the opposite of
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