Blake versus Keats

Although William Blake and John Keats have very different writing styles both poets use images of nature in their poems. Blake's "Introduction", from Songs of Innocence, uses simple language. Keats' "Ode on Melancholy" is dramatic. Although both authors use nature in their poems, Keats provides emotional drama to nature, while Blake's references to nature are very simple and unclear.
The nature imagery in Blake's "Introduction" is that nature is wild and unpredictable. The story tells of a piper playing happily on his pipe in the valley wild. The word wild implies an untamed place. The words valleys wild and pleasant glee contradict each other. The child on the cloud also symbolizes nature as sublime: the innocent child on the rain cloud. The child demands of the piper to play him a song about a Lamb. Lamb is a reference to Jesus. The child weeps while the piper plays because he is thinking about how Jesus sacrificed his life for our sins. The piper went......

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Title: Keates Vs. Blake
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