William Blake was an extraordinary writer who was highly popular in English literature. He wanted to strive in his work to break free from patterns and thought that defined common experience. Blake wanted to make his views clearly different from the ordinary. His musical visions were always based on perception of symbols. William used these symbols to help his audience connect with his thoughts. With that being said, while he composed his poetry, Blake used archetypes for further understanding toward the readers. William Blake’s poems titled, “The Lamb” and “The Tyger”, both use animals to express a symbol to differ between the meaning of innocence and experience. In his poems, William portrays the tyger and the lamb as complete opposites. The lamb represents all things innocent…show more content… In the book, “ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” by J.K Rowling, it states, “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” Rowling, J.K. "J.K. Rowling Quotes (Author of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)." J.K. Rowling Quotes (Author of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone). Good Reads, 8 July 2000. Web. 24 Jan. 2017. William Blake and J.K Rowling are actually pretty similar in their thoughts. Alike Rowling, Blake used his poem, “The Chimney Sweeper” to express the same idea. Tom Dacre, a chimney sweeper in the poem, dreamt of the black coffins and how pleasant death seemed. The color black represented death because chimney sweepers were all covered in black and died usually within a week of working. During the poem, “The Chimney Sweeper,” by William Blake, he states, “As Tom was sleeping he has such a sight, that thousands of sweepers Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack were all of them lock’d up in coffins of black (Page 751, lines 13-16).” Obviously, Blake uses the color of black as an archetype for
