Compare and Contrast William Blake’s poems and “The Communist Manifesto” by Karl Marx Presented By: Blake Engelking and Bennett Laxton

Overview 1)Discuss William Blake’s Poems a)“London” b)“Chimney Sweep” 2)Discuss Karl Marx’s “Communist Manifesto” 3)How do the writing differ? 4)How do they compare? 5)Conclusion

“London” - William Blake Published in 1794 in the Songs of Experience Romantic Poem Does not have a corresponding poem in the Songs of Innocence (2) Drawing!

I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow. And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infants cry of fear, In every voice: in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear How the Chimney-sweepers cry Every blackning Church appalls, And the hapless Soldiers sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlots curse Blasts the new-born Infants tear And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse (2) “London”

“Chimney Sweeper” - William Blake Published In Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794) (3) Romantic poem Drawing!

“Chimney Sweeper” When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry " 'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!" So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep. There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head That curled like a lamb's back, was shaved, so I said, "Hush, Tom! never mind it, for when your head's bare, You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair." And so he was quiet, & that very night, As Tom was a-sleeping he had such a sight! That thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, & Jack, Were all of them locked up in coffins of black; And by came an Angel who had a bright key, And he opened the coffins & set them all free; Then down a green plain, leaping, laughing they run, And wash in a river and shine in the Sun. Then naked & white, all their bags left behind, They rise upon clouds, and sport in the wind. And the Angel told Tom, if he'd be a good boy, He'd have God for his father & never want joy. And so Tom awoke; and we rose in the dark And got with our bags & our brushes to work. Though the morning was cold, Tom was happy & warm; So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm. (3)

“Communist Manifesto” -Karl Marx Written in 1848 ●Dehumanization of workers Communist revolution is going to happen (5)

“The history of all existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guildmaster and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, that each time ended, either in the revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.” ― Karl Marx, The Communist ManifestoKarl MarxThe Communist Manifesto (5)

How all of these two differ? Religion Blake talks about God, and divinity (1) Marx believes it is all about here on earth Problem/Solution (4)

How do these works compare? Both are radical thinkers (1) Depict how workers are dehumanized Hostile towards individual materialism (1)

Conclusion What they saw was enslaved but striving for freedom. Human individualism and Duty Marx is influenced by Blake?

Works Cited (1)Smith, Cyril. Karl Marx and the Future of the Human. Lanham: Lexington, Print. (2)Blake, William. “London.” The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 9th Ed. Vol 2. James Noggle and Lawrence Lipking. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Print. (3)Blake, William. “Chimney Sweeper.” The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 9th Ed. Vol 2. James Noggle and Lawrence Lipking. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Print. (4)Altizer, Thomas J. J. "The Revolutionary Vision Of William Blake." Journal Of Religious Ethics 37.1 (2009): Academic Search Complete. Web. 11 Feb (5)Marx, Karl, and Engels, Frederick. Communist Manifesto : A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document. Chicago, IL, USA: Haymarket Books, ProQuest ebrary. Web. 11 February 2015.