What do you learn about the changes occurring throughout the Romantic period in Blake's poems?

William Blake lived from 1757-1827, and his work was published in the late eighteenth century. It was during this time that many political and social changes were developing in Britain. Blake lived his life as a poet through the Romantic period in history. In this essay, I will first examine two poems by Blake, 'The Tyger' and 'London. I will be looking at how the themes, imagery, structure and form suggest how Blake was affected …

…how he felt about the actual state of the country -a lot of which he expressed in the poem 'London'. This helps us to understand the thinking of the Romantics in general. The style of Blake's poems showed how the old 'rules' for writing poetry were no longer followed and it became an age for individualism. This style reflects how art, poetry and even the way of thinking were rebelling against what was previously accepted.