Blakes Contraries

Yalitza Rufino ENG 102. 7460 Professor Colleran Paper 2 Blakes Idea of Contraries William Blakes poems were created to show the two contrary states. In his poems, he is constantly pass against and challenging the rules of institutions, in specific the church. In The trade union of heaven and Hell, Blake shows his conjecture of contraries with his use of symbols of angels and devils, neat and evil, and especially the comparison between nirvana and hell.The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a collection of contradictions, and without these contradictions Blake believes that there is no progression. Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, tenableness and energy, love and hate are undeniable to forgiving existence. (MHH lines 8-10) The essence to Blakes theory is that it is necessary for innocence and experience to coexist within a person, that both bully and evil are necessary for progression to occur. Line 8 is the purpose of the poem Without contraries is no progression. worship almost always separates, godliness says that the soul is separate from the body, and that the soul is good while the body is evil. The passive people will go to heaven while the restless people will go to hell. We see this in line 12 of the poem Good is the passive that obeys reason, devilish is the active springing from energy. Good is heaven, Evil is hell. The idea of when your body goes to heaven and your soul lives on or goes to heaven or hell is wrong according to Blake.Blake argues that existence arent natural naturally good, but maybe they are born with the potential to be both good and evil. He rejects the idea that we target only be one or the other either good or self-aggrandizing. Blake always wants us to see the two states of nature. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Songs of Innocence and of Experience, He is always comparing two opposites. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate. All of these are necessary to ou r existence and to help us grow in life. We cant have one ithout the other. Blake challenges everything that is briny stream. He doesnt believe in rules and he especially challenges those of the church. In The Voice of The Devil, line 11 states that God will torment human race in eternity for following his Energies. His contrary says that energy is eternal delight. Evil is the active springing from energy. Therefore Blake is conveying that evil is eternal delight. What he is depiction is that man should not be punished for following evil, instead that sometimes bad can be good.Blake believes that good represses evil energy. He compares angels and devils. Where he views angels to be dull and therefore hell isnt that bad of a place compared to heaven. In conclusion, Blake pushes many limits. He stresses the idea of contraries and their importance. He sees what he views as false as ideas that are necessary to assess what he believes is true. He believes that contraries are crucia l to man but that religion often pushes rules upon us that are one sided. He uses his ideas to repress those of the institution.