william blake romanticism 3 questions

This will help give you a glimpse into the perspective and reflective nature of Romantic writers.

William Blake is one of the writers/artists that personifies the hallmarks of the Romantic period. He influenced so many with his works of art and literature.

Read the quotations that follow. Explain three (3) of them by providing examples from your own life.

• The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
• If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
• The fox condemns the trap, not himself.
• Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.
• What is now proved was once, only imagin’d.
• If others had not been foolish, we should be so.