AO3 - Ecchoing Green

• 'Song' structure is influenced by Issac Watts' poems for children, religious hymns, and nursery rhymes.
• Blake invented his own technique of 'relief etching' for his illuminations. This method differs from normal printing as it is only the raised surfaces that are coated in ink, rather than traditionally being cut into. Blake learned to mirror write onto a copper plate.
• • Blake's illuminations connect the verbal with the visual which creates a different dynamic.
  • Typically associated with a child's story book, which suggests he may have intended some younger readers.
  • Recurring images, like vines and angels, act as symbols and add to the meaning of the poem
• The Enlightenment


  Values order and reason, emphasis on science and philosophy. The Romantics thought that nature was a reminder that humans can't control everything.