If the doors of perception were purified everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. Good morning/afternoon sir, I am William Blake, not Wordsworth; Blake, a Romantic poet. I was born in 1757, in the Soho neighborhood of London, England. I was not only a poet but also a painter and an engraver. Ever since I was young, I have had these beautiful 'visions'. I saw the head of a God appear in a window and a tree full of angels. You might think I was crazy but I really wasn't. I lived in the Romantic period, the period of free emotions, adopting individuality and immersing myself in nature. We Romantic poets wanted to change the ideas of the previous period, the Enlightenment. We were fed up with industrial society and the lack of reason and purpose behind everything. We believed that nature and emotion were where spiritual truth was found. The idea of ​​immersing oneself in the natural and beautiful, or in some cases the natural and frightening as in the poem "The Tiger", is decidedly romantic. When I composed "The Tiger", a lyric poem, I tried to represent...