Tinern Abbey

“Tintern Abbey” is a poem about the memory of William Wordsworth’s childhood memory. He compares the scenery of nature beauty in his childhood and after he becomes an adult. He expresses the important impact the memory of pure communion with nature effects on him in childhood and also on his adulthood. After 5 years, he becomes more thoughtful and he feels delightful that the beautiful scenery will bring him happy future memories. The similarity between “Tintern Abbey”, “Frost at Midnight” and “Mont Blanc” is the three poets all experience themselves. They all feel “om” and “sublime” when they see the great nature. In “Tintern Abbey” and “Frost at Midnight”, both poets use Mysticism in their poems express the feeling nature gives them to live a pure nature life. Furthermore, William Wordsworth uses Platonism to convey an idea that though nature won’t stay the same, the though it gives will be understood and will be last long.

Mont Blanc and Frankenstein (romanticism)

In “Frankenstein”, Victor decides to travel to the summit of Montanvert. When he sees the pure, beautiful nature covered with glacier, he feels the sublime spectacle from nature. As he says “They elevated me from all littleness of feeling; and although they did not remove my grief, they subdued and tranquillized it”. In “Mont Blanc” by Percy Shelley, he describes Mont Blanc as mountain around with ice and rock. He feels that death is slumber and it's a circle. Also he recommends people to feel deeply. Both of them are relating to the Romantic Movement. As I quote “The veil of life and death? Or do I die. In dream, and does the mightier world of sleep” and “large codes of fraud and woe; not understood. By all, but which the wise, and great, and good. Interpret, or make felt, or deeply feel. They emphasized the feeling of a sublime nature from external experience by feeling of awe and tranquillization. 

Frankenstein(1-5 Chapters)

I think the author, Mary Shelley, was influenced by the literary movement in 19th century. She used romanticism in her novel "Frankenstein". One of the obvious symbols is that she used her imagination to let a crazy scientist created a monster with animal bodies which was not realistic in real world. Instead of just describing the creature, Mary Shelley also focused on the details about how this monster was created. As she said, this monster was activated by electrics which are quite imaginative because electrics were treated new at that period. In the other hand, I can also feel her writing is a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature. However, Mary Shelley was not only criticizing the spirit of Industrial revolution but also satirizing those scientists. She described the protagonist “Victor” as a crazy scientist neglected everything included family, friends, studies, and social life and became increasingly pale, lonely, and obsessed. She also gave the main character a sarcastic name which was sound like victory, though we, as readers, all knew the monster Victor created was a failure.  After reading the first five chapters of “Frankenstein”, I feel like the author, Mary Shelley, is a woman with full of imagination. Also she uses sarcasm and irony in her story.  

comparison between innocence and experience

William Blake focuses on the comparison between the innocent world of childhood and the harsh world of adults.  In the poem " The Chimney Sweeper" of the innocence version, he describes a naive, pure view from a children. On the contrary, " The Chimney Sweeper" of the experience version, he exhibits a darker side from an adult view. The two perspectives show big differences when they explore the world. It is obvious that William Blake does not pick side. Instead, he tries to describe a more real living of people through different perspectives.
In " Holy Thursday" (Innocence), Blake uses several words to emphasize an innocent scenery, such as words like "innocent faces", " Children walking two and two in red and blue and green", " thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands". Those colors and delightful sceneries can easily make us to associate with childhood. On the other hand, Blake uses negative words to underline the harsh experiences of adult lives in his experience version of "Holy Thursday". Words like "misery", "cold and usurous hand", "trembling cry" and "a land of poverty" make readers feel depressed.
In my judgement, William Blake has a pure purpose and that is to describe a true world.