On The Composite Art Of "Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience"

William Blake was a poet who attached great importance on visual art. His writings play apredominant role in the history of English poetry, integrating poetry, painting and printingtogether. Recently, the most studies abroad about him focus on the relationship of image andtext, while the studies home are still focusing on text. To investigate the Composite Art ofBlake’s Illuminated Books, analysis of "Songs of Innocence and Experience", the early poem inBlake’s writings career, involves the discussions of the internal logic aesthetic of image and text,emotional tension and imaginary construct of image and text by the means of closed readingand interdisciplinary study. The dissertation contains five chapters in total. In chapter onesummarization of Blake’s creative background and his Illuminated Books, and the academicstudies of William Blake in China and aboard suggests the necessity of focusing on theComposite Art in this dissertation. In chapter two, our study focuses on the analysis oftransformation between image of text and picture and exploration of the intertextualrelationship between image and text on the basis of the work. Chapter three is started withreligious feelings,"contradictions","metaphor","Unity of Opposites" as key words, to explorethe impacts of the Composite Art on constructing poetry’s tension. Chapter four analyses themysterious world imagined by Blake, revealing Blake’s anxiety about the fall of experienceworld and attempt at finding a real world. The fifth chapter is the thesis conclusion.