The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Analysis

Normally this is the section where we break out our meter-o-meter and enlighten you with some sweet breakdowns of the various patterns of rhythm and rhyme that are going on in a poem.In this book,...

One rule in poetry, prose poetry, even genre-bending poetry-prose combos like The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is this: don't confuse the writer with the speaker. You see, Shmoopers, writers are sne...

"This is hell," you might have heard someone say when they're not having much fun. Think Algebra test or insurance seminar. When Blake's speaker says that, though, he literally means it. Call it wh...

What's the sound of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, you ask? Well, to quote the poets RUN-DMC, "It's tricky."As we talk about over in "Form and Meter," Blake is not interested in any kind of conve...

"Wuv… twoo wuv." We know, we know—every discussion about marriage has to reference that scene from The Princess Bride. This book's not about marriage in the traditional sense, though—or even...

William Blake is one out-there cat—we mean gone, daddio. He's so unique that he makes us break out in late '50s beatnik slang just to describe him. Like all visionaries, though, you know it's him...

Pack a lunch, Shmoopers. Between Blake's eighteenth-century language, his biblical and literary allusions, his genre-bending forms, and—oh yeah—his wildly unconventional imagery and content, th...

William Blake often reported having spiritual visions. When his favorite brother died, he reported seeing his brother's spirit leave his body—clapping his hands for joy as he did. (Source.) Later...

For a book that features a tour of Hell, this is a pretty suitable book—until you get to that unfortunate scene with the monkeys doing all sorts of unspeakable things to one another. Like a good...

Paradise Lost (2.11)John Milton (2.13, 2.17-18)Emmanuel Swedenborg (1.23, 7.9, 7.14-7.20) Apocalypse Revealed, Emmanuel Swedenborg (3, 5, 6, 7, 8)Diogenes of Greece (5.8) Analytics by Ari...