V5 28 Feb The Rime of the Ancient Mariner/BLAKE

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Today:

- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- William Blake:
                  The Tyger
                  The Schoolboy

Please make sure you have your Alquin, a notebook and a pen on your table. 
 

The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner 2/2

by 

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Make sure you have your Alquin and a notebook on your table and a pen in your hand. 

Part 3

- Ghost-ship appears

- On board: Death and a beautiful woman called Life-in-Death

- Casting dice to decide upon the fate of the ship

- Life-in-Death: mariner

- Death: the rest of the crew

Part 4

- Mariner accepts he's cursed

- Tried to pray, but wasn't possible until he accepted God's creatures/creations

- He gets back to England led by the crew possessed by spirits

Part 5

- Everything changes "for the better": Mariner is saved and is forgiven by a holy man. 

- Mariner has to tell the story over and over again (his penance).

- God has made/created us all, so respect nature and all of creation.

William Blake

• 1757-1827
• Did not go to school at first, roamed around London.
• Artistic talent
• 1782: married Catherine Boucher (illiterate),
  no children
• Used new graphical techniques:
  copper engraving.

William Blake

• First major collection: Songs of Innocence, 1789. 
  Collection of short poems influenced by nursery rhymes, ballads and hymns.
• About growing up in a secure setting.
  
  
• Second collection: Songs of Experience. 
• Effect of the city, social/religious oppression on children.

William Blake - The Tyger

• Songs of Experience
• Tiger as a symbol of the magnitude and power of God's creation: magnificent, majestic and full of beauty, but also frightening because of its deadly violence.  
• Message: How could it be that the one and the same God created both the innocent and vulnerable lamb and the frighteningly powerful tiger. 

William Blake - The Tyger

• Songs of Experience
• Tiger as a symbol of the magnitude and power of God's creation: magnificent, majestic and full of beauty, but also frightening because of its deadly violence.  
• Message: How could it be that the one and the same God created both the innocent and vulnerable lamb and the frighteningly powerful tiger. 

Homework Wednesday

Answer the questions on
- the Ancient Mariner (p. 25), only questions 8-13
and the questions on
- The Tyger (p. 51)

and hand in your answers on itslearning (don't forget!).
You can skip the additional assignments.

William Blake - The Schoolboy

• During Blake's time, schools were usually housed in old, dark and forbidding buildings. 
• Few teachers were properly trained.
• Schoolmasters were typically retired soldiers, looking to supplement their meagre army pensions.
• Children were drilled to be obedient and if they weren't, the response was corporal punishment. 

William Blake - The Schoolboy

• Blake was heavily influenced by French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 
• Émile ou de l'Éducation (1762): we should not learn in school, but in/from nature.
• The Schoolboy: the schoolboy bemoans his situation. Books and lessons isolate him from nature and thus prevent him from enjoying life.