On the 22 nd day of the Blog
chatter’s #WRITEAPAGEADAY, Here is a poem with love as the major theme.
Poet: WILLIAM BLAKE
Poem: NEVER SEEK TO TELL
THY LOVE
Never seek to tell thy love
Love that never told can be
For the gentle wind does move
Silently invisibly
I I told my love I told my love
I I told her all my heart
Trembling cold in ghastly fears
Ah she doth depart
Soon as she was gone from me
A traveller came by
Silently invisibly
O was no deny
William Blake is considered a Romantic poet
because his poems exemplified the characteristics of Romantic poetry. They
were lyrical, or song-like, due to his use of imagery and conscious word
choice. Many of his poems focus on nature and emotion, which are two
characteristics of Romantic poetry.
William Blake's style of writing exemplifies both English Romantic
aesthetics and the gradual shift in poetry from traditional verse and
composition to free verse; he is also known for his use of personification and
sensory language. Blake's poetry features many
characteristics of the romantic spirit - in the importance he attached to
imagination, in his mysticism and symbolism, in his love of liberty, in his
humanitarian sympathies, in his idealization of childhood, in the pastoral
setting of many of his poems, and in his lyricism.
The early work of
William Blake was chiefly lyrical. The poetical sketches were published in
1783, the songs of Innocence in 1789; then, in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,
the symbolic note appears, it sub serves more and more the symbolism of the
poet and his mystical doctrines.
But at his
best, his daring simplicity, his spiritual beauty, claims our sympathies and
thrills our imagination, as only a great poet has power to do. In addition to
being considered one of the most visionary of English poets and one of the
great progenitors of English Romanticism, his visual artwork is highly regarded
around the world.
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