Research Blake Modern Perspective

William Blake, an unsung British poet in his lifetime, became famous inlate19thand early20thcentury. He was praised as talented and his literatures anddiscourses had been studied at home and broad since then. Blake is deemed as thepredecessor of British Romanticism poet by historians and critics nowadays. Therising of Blake research reflects that his thought and idea had overcome the era tosome extent. In this theis, the author tries to study and discuss the connotation andaesthetic ideology of Blake’s potery from the perspective of modernism by integratingrelative theories such as text intensive reading, hermeneutics and New Criticism etc.The introduction part introduces the topic origin, literature review, research methodand creation will be explained in the introduction.The thesis is consisted of3parts: thefirst part will discuss the topic of “whether Blake is romanticist or symbolist” frommulti-tendencies of romanticism history and development, the dispute betweenromanticism and symbolism and the perspective of symbol and symbolism;the secondpart will discuss the connotation of Blake’s poem under the perspective of romanticismfrom the facets of the poetic construction, magic imagination and harmony inoppsition; the third part will be a profound analyse of symbolism element infiltratedinside Blake’s poem from the creativeness and openness of symbolic body, complexityand diversity of image application and secretiveness and suggestibility of mythology.From the perspective of Modernism, the study of Blake should focus more on textitself and understand the profoundness of Blake’s poem connotation and thecomplexity and diversity of his artistic ideology. Blake is the pioneer of British poemcreation, the forerunner of of Romanticism and the prophet of Symbolism at the sametime.