Tintern Abbey

Tintern Abbey is just like Mont Blanc and Frost at Midnight with the fact that it has a lot to do with nature. You can tell the poet Williams Wordsworth has a different writing style than Percy Shelley.  I think what the poem is about is that he used to go to this Abbey a lot when he was a child with his sister. It says that he hasn't been there for 5 years and he's there with his sister. He reminisces with his sister about all the things that he remembered about the Abbey and the nature int he area. I think he took nature for granted when he was a kid but now he notices things that he didn't before. Nature makes you wise over time when you grow up with it. 

Frankenstein

Victor aka Frankenstein was very interested in science as a child, he studied alchemy as a teenager but when a philosopher explains to him what electricity is he made alchemy sound like nonsense. Frankenstein was written in the romanticism era. It has a lot of connection with nature and I can tell it's going to have a lot of emotion. 

Blake Poems

Daniel Stevens
Mrs. Shorey

Daniel Stevens

Mrs. Shorey 

         When William Blake wrote the innocence and experience versions of his poem Holy Thursday I think we was comparing the good and bad in the world. The first poem (innocence) was very cheerful and gave you something to be happy about, thousands of little boys and girls singing in London. It mentions a few things about heaven and angels. I think hew as comparing angels to the young children singing. I believe the poem was about children singing Christmas carols to "old guardians" (old people?) and then it says something like "lest you drive an angel from your door". I think that's saying he can you turn away children singing carols. The second poem (experience) was definitely a lot more dark and morbid. I didn't really understand this poem as mucha s the first one but I think it has to do with people singing carols also, but poor people singing them. I wasn't sure what babes meant but I know this is meant to be a darker version of the first poem. 

           The Chimney Sweeper was definitely a lot harder for me to interpret, the first version was okay but I couldn't really tell the difference. I think William Blake does like to focus his poems on not so happy things... I think the difference between the innocence and experience poem is that the innocence is from the view point of a child, and it sounds like the experience is from the view point of an adult who may be angry at God.