Dissertação
Mostrando os estados contrários da alma humana: um estudo das canções de inocência e de experiência, de William Blake
Fecha
2015-12-17Registro en:
OLIVEIRA, Leandro Cardoso de. SHEWING THE TWO CONTRARY STATES OF THE HUMAN SOUL :
A STUDY OF THE WILLIAM BLAKE S SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND
OF EXPERIENCE. 2015. 102 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Letras) - Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, 2015.
Autor
Oliveira, Leandro Cardoso de
Institución
Resumen
William Blake was a painter, poet and printmaker. The author demonstrated a large
experimentation in the production of his art, developing his own method of printing
and publishing. Such method made possible the creation of the so called illuminated
books, support in which was published most of his composite art, which combines
poetry and painting in an inseparable way. This dissertation aims to examine the
states of "Innocence" and of "Experience" in the illuminated books Songs of
Innocence (1789), Songs of Experience (1794) and Songs of Innocence and of
Experience - Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul (1794 ). Usually,
the Blake's "Innocence state", in the text and in the visual compositions, is associated
with idealized existence, childhood figures and fertile nature. "Experience", on the
other hand, presents urban scenes or arid nature, adult images and a different
perspective about life, without the characteristic idealization of "Innocence". However,
although the titles of the volumes indicate which compositions would be of
"Innocence" and what would be of Experience", the compositions have evidences
that perhaps these states are not clearly defined or contrary, as the subtitle of the
agglutinated edition indicates. Examples of it, besides adult figures on the
Innocence book and childhood images on the Experience , are compositions that
appear in both Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, depending on the
copy. Considering the switchable aspect of this collection of poems and the
reallocations made by Blake in the several copies of the books, it will be observed
what is the elements that fundaments the states of "Innocence" and of "Experience"
on the three books of Songs.