The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
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Choose any two of the Proverbs of Hell from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and discuss what they mean and how you relate to them.
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Discussion 4.1
Consider the works of the 3 poets. Can you identify a common theme among them?
Choose one poem from each poet and write a post that analyzes how the poems relate to the theme you identified. (This is not compare/contrast; rather you are looking at how Romantic poets treat a common theme.)
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PREVIOUS 2 POEMS
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Discussion instructions for this poem….
Discussion post….
In paradise lost book 1 Satan is portrayed as completely disconcerted as he is thrown from the jurisdiction of light to darkness and suffering place. Satan feels pity and regrets the act of bringing the rebel angels to the place of darkness and sufferings he is thrown. He encourages himself as well as his courage through vowing to always do evil or ill which will be his soul delight. Satan appears to be confident that God will never drive them away from the place of darkness and he is determined to rule in the dark and feels that the place is better than being in heaven serving God.
Although Satan is portrayed as a hero of the Paradise by some, in paradise lost book 1, there are arguments against that view. Though Milton describes Satan as having brilliant qualities such as being sympathetic, Satan ousts these qualities as he is determined to deliberately do harm and lead other angels to persistently do harm. The focus is made on Satan as the antagonist while the true hero of Milton who is the son of God appears later in the story and he is the protagonist.
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Discussion instructions for this reading…..
In your discussion post, explore the validity of Pope’s satirical criticism of society and vanity. Do we make too much of small things? Are humans too vain? What do you think Pope’s answer to those questions would be?
Discussion post…
Pope satire and vanity on humans focus on peculiar behaviors of the upper classes (Pope, 2003). Pope exposes society ignorance of the world outside Hampton court palace. Instead of discussing the important matter they are preoccupied with irrelevances. Society is willing to worship beauty which is a religious perversion; pope sexualizes the cross by saying that it is found on Belinda whit breast (Pope, 2003). These suggested that Belinda’s’s nipple were the object of worship and not the cross.
According to the pope in his poems, members of society only focus on trivial matters. He depicts card game as an epic battle, which gives a young aristocrat a heroic gain after gambling and flirting “battlefield” (Pope, 2003). Because of unimportant things, a person is respected and glorified. Yes, we humans are in vain as we normalize domesticated murder and cannibalism. The human body is shown suffering much in life just like we are insensitive to what animals go through, and the same things most likely will happen to us.
