From Innocence to Experience: A Study of Blake's The Book of Thel and Visions of the Daughters of Albion

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تاریخ نمایه سازی: 28 آذر 1392

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Different sources have emphasized the existence and the importance of four states of being in studying Blake’s poetry. Blake talks about four states of being: Beulah or the state of naïve innocence, Experience or Generation, the state of higher or organized innocence and Ulro. Blake does not approve of staying in the first state, Beulah, which is a stage of passivity and emphasizes the necessity of passing through the second state, Experience or Generation, since it is an active state that leads to Organized Innocence. One falls to the hell of Ulro if he does not pass the second state successfully. An active participation in the state of experience is a way to organized innocence and in most of the Songs of Innocence and Experience he shows his condemnation of naïve innocence. The Book of Thel and Visions of the Daughters of Albion as Beulah poems show the fear of entering experience and the courage to face it respectively. The Book of Thel , published in 1789, is about Thel who is afraid of experience as a prelude to a higher state while Oothoon in Visions of the Daughters of Albion enters experience by breaking the bonds of Urizen.The methodology followed in this study is not merely based upon one school of thought or criticism. The main emphasis rests on applying Blake’s own theories especially his view of the 4 states of being. Therefore a close reading of the two Beulah poems The Book of Thel and Visions of the Daughters of Albion deems inevitable. The Book of Thel treats the first two states in Blake's cosmology and implies the need to pass from primitive or naïve innocence through experience to achieve a higher organized innocence and finally shows her failure to move from Innocence to Experience, from Beulah to Generation. Visions as a development from Thel who flees from experience, shows Oothoon, the spirit of freedom, who revolts against sexual and social repression

کلیدواژه ها:

Blake’s four states of being ، innocence ، experience ، Visions ،

نویسندگان

Parvin Ghasemi

Ph.D, Shiraz University

Sara Setayesh

Shiraz University