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THE QUEST FOR ORGANIZED INNOCENCE
Paper on William Blake’s Poetry and Paintings
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Chris Furman’s The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys Novel and Film
“Without Contraries there is no Progression”
“As the eye is formed such are its Powers”
“For everything that lives is Holy”
“When reason denies the validity of intuitive or visionary knowledge or when moral obedience is fostered at the expense of the will, strength, or intelligence, the creative interplay of contraries is short-circuited and Man is alienated from Himself.”
-William Blake
ESSAY PROMPT: Write a paper that develops William Blake’s ideas about the need to travel through an innocent perspective and an experienced perspective in order to arrive at a cleansed perspective of “organized innocence,” and how this helps us understand Francis Doyle's journey toward “organized innocence.”
Analyze poems of the Songs of Innocence, a corresponding innocent painting and “innocent moments” in Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys novel and film.
Analyze poems of the Songs of Experience, a corresponding experienced painting and “experienced moments” in Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys novel and film.
Develop how these are the two “contrary states / perspectives of the human soul” through which we all pass.
Articulate the “cleansed perspective” of organized innocence by addressing a poem or poem pair and a moment in the novel and film
Outline Blake Poems, Paintings, Novel, Film Paper
Outline Blake Poems, Paintings, Novel, Film Paper
HONORS OUTLINE:
I. TITLE
A. INTRODUCTION
1. Opener:
2. Bridge:
3. Embedded Plan and Thesis
B. First Body Paragraph
1. Song of Innocence 1:
a. Context
b. Condense
c. Concept Definition (Innocent Perspective) and Connect
2. Paste Painting 1
a. Close Read Painting for details
b. Concept Definition (Innocent Perspective):
c. Connect via concept
C. Second Body Paragraph
1. Song of Experience 1:
a. Context
b. Condense
c. Concept Definition (Experienced Perspective):
2. Paste Painting 2
a. Close Read Painting for details
b. Concept Definition (Experienced Perspective):
c. Connect via concept
d. Compare poems and paintings: #52
e. Contrast poems and paintings: #53
f. Develop the concept of "organized innocence" through these two poems. Here is a starter:
While the Experienced Perspective argues that __________________, the Innocent Perspective encourages us
to re-value _______________________________.
D. 3rd Body Paragraph
1. Develop Proverb Pair: Bible and Proverb of Hell
a. Develop the concept of "organized innocence" through these two Proverbs. Here is a starter:
While the Experienced Perspective in the Proverb of Hell argues that __________________, the Innocent
Perspective in the Biblical Proverb encourages us to re-value _______________________________.
E. 3rd Body Paragraph
1. Passage 1 excerpt from novel:
a. Context
b. Condense
c. Concept Definition
d. Add summary of a corresponding or other moment from the film:
e. Connect via concept and connect to poem pairs and Proverb pairs
F. 4th Body Paragraph
1. Passage 2 excerpt from novel:
a. Context
b. Condense
c. Concept Definition
d. Add summary of a corresponding or other moment from the film:
e. Connect via concept and connect to poem pairs and Proverb pairs
. . . (add paragraphs as needed)
G. Conclusion
1. Transition from topic of last paragraph to thesis
2. React to value of paper and texts
3. End by returning to the opener in idea or language
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STANDARD OUTLINE:
I. TITLE
A. INTRODUCTION
1. Opener:
2. Bridge:
3. Embedded Plan and Thesis
B. First Body Paragraph
1. Song of Innocence 1:
a. Context
b. Condense
c. Concept Definition (Innocent Perspective) and Connect
C. Second Body Paragraph
1. Song of Experience 1:
a. Context
b. Condense
c. Concept Definition (Experienced Perspective):
d. Compare poems #52
e. Contrast poems #53
f. Develop the concept of organized innocence through these two poems: While the Experienced Perspective argues that __________________,
the Innocent Perspective encourages us to re-value _______________________________.
D. 3rd Body Paragraph
1. Passage 1 excerpt from novel: (at least one passage)
a. Context
b. Condense
c. Add summary of a corresponding or other moment from the film:
d. Concept Definition (Organized Innocence Perspective):
e. Connect via concept
G. Conclusion
1. Transition from topic of last paragraph to thesis
2. React to value of paper and texts
3. End by returning to the opener in idea or language
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