布莱克诗歌反映的社会现实

Social Reality as Reflected in the Poetry of William Blake

作为英国早期浪漫主义诗歌的重要代表之一，威廉·布莱克的作品在其有生之年因不符合时代潮流而少有人问津，他自己也被称为疯子。其一生潦倒，深知民间疾苦，这引起了他对资本家、统治者的无比痛恨和对劳动人民的无限同情。布莱克信奉基督教，认为人们过上幸福生活的最佳途径就是遵循基督教义。然而，虚伪的教会却把基督教义当成了满足自己私欲的工具，给人们戴上沉重的精神枷锁，更是以耶稣的名义对人们进行惩罚。从布莱克生平和生活的时代背景入手，分析其诗歌反映的社会现实，可以看到劳苦大众的苦难生活、教会势力的虚伪与黑暗。

William Blake was the famous English poet of romantic poetry. He lived in poverty all his life and developed great hatred for the capitalists and great sympathy for the poor. He himself believed that beliefs in Christian doctrines could make people live happy lives. But the church used the Christian doctrines to con trol people＇s minds. William Blake wrote many poems that reflected the social reality of the 19th --century Britain. This paper aims to analyze the social reality from two aspects： poor people＇s miserable lives, the church＇s cruelty. Moreover, a brief introduction to William Blake and the historical background are introduced.