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While searching for a resource to help me better understand william blakes poetry i found this blog called william blake and his poetry. on this blog i found some interesting interpertations of william blakes poems. The background of the blog was also very fun. on this blog there is interpertations on poison tree, songs of innocence, black and white, and the human abstract. the blog goes on to explain that blake started off with art and engravings which he later transfered to poetry by engraving all of his poems. the bloggers on william blake and his poetry also found that blake had been seeing god angels and demons since age 4 which i thought was very interesting. the blog also explains some of the major infuences in his art work and poetry. some of the influences were his brother who had died. this blog says that robert(his brother) was a huge infuence on williams art and poetry they also claim that william believed to have spoken with angels and demons and also saw his brothers soul. Elizabeth Martinez one of the blogs writers claims that he did his first engraving while apprenticed to a man called James Basire who influenced his first engraving "Joseph of Arimathea amoung the Rocks of Albion". Elizabeth goes on to say that he married at the age of twenty-five to catherine boucher who is said to have helped him write the songs of innocence.
  I find it very interesting that he opened a print shop with a man called John Flaxman and that it didnt do well considering how famous his poems are now you would think that he would have done very well for himself with all the poems he wrote but poetry must be like art work its not famous or worth very much unless the artist or poet is dead. The blog william blake and his poetry had alot of interesting facts about william blakes life that i never would have known if i hadnt checked that blog. it also has much more interesting facts than displayed here but you will have to check it out to see them.