The earliest is the "naive prediction" of the English poet Blake: "See the world in a grain of sand and heaven in a flower; Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and a moment is a permanent robbery. "

Zong Baihua, a modern aesthete, translated this poem into "a world in a flower, a heaven in a sand, with boundless palms and eternal robbery in an instant."

See a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower. Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.

See the world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower. Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.

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These four lines are the first four lines of the long poem "The Omen of Innocence". The author william blake is also a watercolor painter and printmaker. Interestingly, although the first four sentences of this poem are household names, the whole poem is not among Blake's representative works, and it is rarely discussed by critics.

Black maintained a radical tendency in religion, politics and art all his life. His strong religious consciousness, artist's talent and rich life experience provide an inexhaustible creative source for his poems, which makes his poems have obvious religious, prophetic, philosophical and artistic features.

The language of early poetry is simple and easy to understand, mainly short poems, with short syllables, and the theme content is mainly what you see and hear in life; However, the length of later poems increased obviously, sometimes reaching hundreds or even thousands of lines, and the content was obviously obscure, with mystery, religion and symbol as the main characteristics.

Blake's most quoted and recited poems, such as Chimney Cleaner, Nanny's Song, Sick Rose and Ode to the Tiger, can all be regarded as part of constructing Blake's "paradise prototype".

The self-styled Ezekiel boy saw a religious illusion when he was four years old. He could talk to the "white god" in an intimate language. Although the world is bleak and his writing style is sluggish, Blake devoted himself to the "secular satire" movement like Bunyan and Marlowe with great childlike innocence and magnificent imagination and fighting capacity.

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