The Romantic period produced more poets who, at one time or another, aspired to become philosophers than in any other period in English literature. The Romantic poets felt a need for a metaphysical structure that would, conceptually, make explicit the mind set that had emerged from am era of revolutionary change in art, politics, and society. William Blake is one the philosophical poets of the era whose works attempt to get at philosophical truth through imaginative means. In The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Blake attempts reconciliation between good and evil through his awareness that the moral codes of society limit creative freedom.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell opens with an "Argument", which describes how the "just man" has been driven from his original state in Eden to become an outcast wandering in the wilderness. The "just man" represents the meek peasant coming out from under the feudal shadow into the "wilderness", the first stage of the Revolution. In the first lines of the reader is told that "Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burdened air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep", thus introducing an abstract personification. Rintrah may be unde

In the last "Memorable Fancy", Blake writes that man must be allowed to reach freely into the depths of himself to find creativity. Herbert Marcuse writes that the artist is originally a man who turns from reality "because he cannot come to terms with the demand for renunciation of instinctual satisfaction as it is first made and who then in fantasy allows full play to his ambitious wishes"(159): "The worship of God is honouring Leslie 5 [sic] his gifts in other men, each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best. Those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God".

In the "Proverbs of Hell", Blake calls readers to recognize the value of creativity and the enslavement of it by society: "In seed-time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. Drive your cart and your plough over the bones of the dead. The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom": Blake feels that the revolution and the "process of rehumanization" (Keynes 149) are manifestations of the liberation of human creativity that has been repressed by society's rigid morality. Blake tells readers to "Bring out number, weight and measure in a year of dearth" emphasizing the emotional sterility and lack of creativeness that marks monarchy. Blake prefers passion to reason: "The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction" thus supporting revolution in order to gain creative freedom. The "Proverbs of Hell"(87-8) are Blake's commentary on the inadequacy of society: "The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy seas, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity too great for the eye of man". Blake asserts that the world can only be fully opened through the free, unrestricted use of creativity.

1. Man has no body distinct from his soul, for that called body is a portion of soul discerned by the five senses (the chief inlets of soul in this age).

2. Energy is the only life and is from the body, and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy.

In "Opposition is tru

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