LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 13:7 July 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Songs of Innocence and Experience -
A Trans-historical Humanitarian Discourse

Ashaq Hussain Parray, M.A., M.Phil., NET, SET

Part of English Romanticism

William Blake (1757-1827), the foremost controversial figure of English Romanticism, has attracted the attention of the Easterners recurrently because of his recourse to mysticism, which is generally considered to be the legacy of the East. It would not be an exaggeration to say that if he would have been born in the East, he would have been considered and venerated as an illuminated genius, for the Easterners hold and share the same cosmic view as he held.

Comprehending the Mysteries of the Mysterious Creator

William Blake was not a namesake visionary but vision for him is the key to comprehend the mysteries of the mysterious creator. He had the belief that he could easily and coherently see what he imagined. His entire creative aura is an attempt to develop this faculty of vision. He longed for the harmonious unity between good and evil, but this shouldn’t be viewed as something devilish, rather he wished that what is generally believed to be evil by the social, political and religious bodies as evil is just a hypothetical construct and not something really destructive that needs to be suppressed and controlled. He believed that good and evil are both aspects of the real truth. He considered ‘experience/knowledge’ responsible for the primal fall and the current crisis in the religio-political sphere too the result of this over emphasis of rationality. Natural instincts, emotions and innocence like essential ingredients that constitute the true identity marks of human beings, Black aspires that these be given a free hand. These should neither be suppressed due to the fear of Church, nor should be surrendered in the lawn of nation state. Rather he holds the view that both religion and state ought to acknowledge the dignity and integrity of human being. These should allow the human beings to liberate their creative potential and divine energy.

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Ashaq Hussain Parray, M.A., M.Phil., NET, SET
Assistant Professor English
IUST
Awantipora
Jammu &Kashmir
India Ashaq533@gmail.com
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