I will give you two of the following questions. You will have to answer one of these two questions. You will have 45 minutes to answer the question. You are expected to be aware of, and understand, the interpretation(s) of the texts presented in class. But you should also feel free to criticize these interpretations and present your own views. My main concern is that your answers make a good, that is well defended, case for the interpretation of the text that you find plausible and interesting. Thus your answers should be as thorough and detailed as possible. While you should certainly answer the specific question asked, you should also try to place your answer in the context of an overall interpretation of the text under consideration. In doing this, you should make reference to important passages in the texts or to the structure of the text as a whole. It would be nice if you can quote some passages from the text, but it is not necessary: A paraphrase of appropriate passages from the text will be fine. No reading in secondary materials is necessary or desirable in preparing your answers to these questions.

1. What is Blake’s answer to the questions posed in "The Tyger:"
   

Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

2. How does Blake hope "The Lamb" and "The Tyger" will change our everyday view of the world?
   
3. Blake has often been considered a poet of protest, a view that seems confirmed by "The Chimney Sweeper" and "London." What is Blake protesting? What does he see as the ultimate source of the evils he condemns?
   
4. Is Blake a (good) Christian?
   
5. What is Blake’s account of human evil? How does it differ from the view he says has been held by the "Bibles or sacred codes" that "have been the causes" of errors?
   
6. What does the form and content of "Tintern Abbey" tell us about the power and effect of human memory and reflection?
   
7. The speaker in "Tintern Abbey" contrasts the way he looked on nature as a boy and the way he does presently. Why can he no longer approach nature the way he did as a boy? What has he lost from his inability to do so? What has he gained from his present way of looking at nature?
   
8. What does the speaker in "Tintern Abbey" see when he "sees into the life of things?"
   
9. "Tintern Abbey" seems to dramatically change direction when the speaker addresses his sister. What account for this change of direction? Why does the speaker address his sister as he does?
   
10. Locke, Blake and Wordsworth all celebrate human powers and human freedom. What though, distinguishes their respective views of the nature of human freedom?
    
11. What would Blake or Wordsworth have to say about Locke’s ideal of a "rational and industrious" life?