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1What are Blake’s points of view? Blake never tried to fit into the world, he was a rebel innocently and xompletely all his life. He was politically of the permanent left and mixed a good deal with the radicals like Thomas Paine. Lide Shelley, Blake strongly criticized the capitalists’cruel exploitation, saying that the dark satanic mills left men unemployed, killed children and forced prostitution. Meanwhile he cherished great expataations and enthusiasm for the French Revolutionl and regard it as a necessary stage leading to the millennium predicted by the biblical prophets. Literary Blake was the first important Romantic poetm showing a contempt for the rule of reason, opposing the classical tradition fo the 18th century, and treasuring the individual’s imagination. 3. How did Burns develop the common love into a lofty one in his A Red, Red Rose? Use examples to illustrate it. One of the most famous songs that Robert Burns wrote for this project and first published in 1794 was “A Red, Red Rose.” Burns wrote it as a traditional ballad, four verses of four lines each. “A Red, Red Rose” begins with a quatrain containing two similes. Burns compares his love with a springtime blooming rose and then with a sweet melody. These are popular poetic images and this is the stanza most commonly quoted from the poem. The second and third stanzas become increasingly complex, ending with the metaphor of the “sands of life,” or hourglass. One the one hand we are given the image of his love lasting until the seas run dry and the rocks melt with the sun, wonderfully poetic images. On the other hand Burns reminds us of the passage of time and the changes that result. That recalls the first stanza and its image of a red rose, newly sprung in June, which we know from experience will change and decay with time. These are complex and competing images, typical of the more mature Robert Burns. The final stanza wraps up the poem’s complexity with a farewell and a promise of return. “A Re