The purpose of this paper is to examine the social criticism classified by dehumanization centering around Blake’s poetry. The eighteen century of England went through social upheaval and confusion through the influence of the Industrial revolution and the French revolution. Humanism and morality were fallen into ruin, materialism was flourishing. William Blake was a poet who had keen eyes for the dehumanization and losing human qualities caused by industrial society. The economic growth in England made their life more comfortable and exuberant but the submerged tenth of society have a struggle for existence. In Blake’s time, English society was overflowing with anti-humanization. Blake would try to seek for the way to recover humanity in his poems. He had insight into human nature of the dehumanizing effects of poverty and squalor. William Blake knows that materialism devastates the human emotions. He deplored the public tendency to regard money as being omnipotent. He criticized them in his poems with a keen salvation and would like to suggest the solution for human nature and hypocrisy. William Blake criticized them in his poems with a keen observation and would like to suggest the solution for social recovery and human release for modern society in his poem.
한국중앙영어영문학회 [The Jungang English Language And Literature Association Of Korea]
설립연도
1968
분야
인문학>영어와문학
소개
본 학회는 영미어문학의 학술연구와 이에 부합하는 아래의 사업을 기획 수행하며,
또한 회원 상호간의 친목을 도모함을 목적으로 한다.
1. 학회지 발간
2. 연구 발표회, 강연회, 공동연구
3. 영미어문학 관련 도서출판
4. 영미어문학 관계 도서 및 자료의 모집 및 비치
5. 기타 본회의 목적 달성에 필요한 사업
간행물
간행물명
영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]