『경험의 노래』에서 육체적 사랑 읽기
Physical Love in Songs of Experience
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In Songs of Experience Blake asserts that the Earth can be raised as a spiritual body when she is released from the restraint of love. For this utopian vision of the future, it is necessary for the poet to condemn the faults and errors of his time. Blake defied the strict moral law the State and Church imposed in the England of the Eighteenth Century. In his eyes, London was a city of numerous restrictions, the worst being in the repression of physical love. For him, physical love means life and joy, which can ascend into the realm of the eternity of the soul. His defense of physical love is based on the ideas that everything that is alive is holy and that the body is not separated from the soul. According to Blake, the Church dictates that physical love is sinful, shameful, and impure, encouraging self-denial. As a result, girls, like the Virgin in "Ah! Sun-Flower," repress their sexual desire and long for death to live the heavenly life of the soul. They also, as the speaker of "The Angel" does in her dream, pretend not to be interested in physical love, even though they have a strong desire for it. The repression of physical love by the State and Church results in the distortion of love, making it dark and secret. Blake insists that sexual repression spawns hypocrisy and death, while physical love brings forth joy of life and the vision of eternity. His argument for the value of the body and of physical love is against the rationalism of the Eighteenth Century, especially deism whose doctrine says that God rules the world by the established law. In Songs of Experience Blake's preference for the body and for physical love also implies that he politically supports those who are neither civilized nor intellectual: the poor and oppressed. In this respect, he is very similar to Wordsworth who deals with the humble and rustic life of poor people in Lyrical Ballads in order to emphasize human dignity. To both poets human beings are good by nature, which is one of the basic characteristics of Romanticism.
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