William Blake Comments

When I think of what the poet William Blake said about Jesus being the equivalent of the human imagination, I think it began well but ended up showing itself to be the imagination of Blake, for better or worse depending on how you look at it.
It was really a scattering of different personal beliefs he had mashed in with his own visionary experiences.
Blake had a liberated view of human sexuality and this he made very apparent in his poems. A lot of his drawings of men and women celebrate the naked body.
Blake was said to have believed that marriage was anti nature, in which it denied people of their forbidden desires. He also was known to have shunned chastity as a virtue seeing no reason why people should hold it so high in esteem.
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