Holy Thursday by William Blake

An English poet and printmaker. William Blake was an early achiever starting his career early along with his wife Catherine. After his father's death he opened up a print shop and began working. His poems surrounded the theme of Romanticism, although his works weren't regarded as great back in his days but is now recognized by many contemporary writers.

Our imaginary landscape allows the inhabitants to shape their inner landscapes, enabling them to have a further understanding of who you are. 'Holy Thursday' by William Blake shows the importance of expressing your imaginations freely. To be able to connect with your inner landscape. The poet purposely attacks the responder to re-evaluate their current way of living questioning the reader whether we're living the life we should be living, whether our children too being sucked into our bad habits and being forced to grow up quickly.

Blake begins the poem by leading the reader into a series of rhetorical questions to place the responder in a position where they are able to question the way they're living. 'Is this a holy thing to see in a rich and fruitful land' conveys that inhabitants are given many opportunities to be able to figure out who they are. Yet inhabitants aren't allowing themselves to be engulfed by the landscape to become individuals as they worry about what other will think evident in the phrase 'reduced to misery'. The poet emphasizes the lack of individuality within the rhetorical question 'And so many children poor?' illustrates that children too aren't being embraced by the landscape, instead they are being 'poorly' raised, looking up towards parents as their role models and emulates what they have been shown. The use of punctuation in 'It is a land of poverty!' further emphasizes the idea that the inhabitants minds need to be filled with more imagination and should then be expressed to show others that you're different.

The visual imagery in 'And their sun does never shine, and their fields are bleak and bare' indicates that our imagination is cold and boring which in turn isn't worth being showcast as our minds are 'bleak and bare'. Everyone minds think which in turn allows us to act alike, therefore doesn't allow people to be their own selves and set apart from others. The use of strong modality to sum up the poets beliefs in 'For where-e'er the sun does shine, And where-e'er the rain does fall, Babes should never hunger there, Nor poverty the mind appall.' states that when your imagination 'runs wild' let it run wild and don't allow others to judge you because of how you think. Your imagination and thoughts shape the person you are and no one has the right to stop you.