Blog 10: Evaluation
Final Evaluation Initially I wanted to use poetry to explore the idea of contrasts. Blakes's 'Songs of Innocence and Experience' showing the 'two contrary states of the human soul' became my stimuli. I hoped to consider the value and limitations of the two different perspectives, dramatising both the joy and naivety of innocence, before considering how the harsh experiences of life and the negative forces within society can change a perspective. I had many ideas for movement, and, like Blake, wanted to consider the same experience through two different lenses. Therefore I considered how the same movement could be expressed through two different dynamics. This proved fruitful, but ultimately uninspiring. The complexity of Blake's philosophy, his deep underlying imagery representing the corruption of the human soul through despotic authority and institutionalised religion gave me ideas but was a 'theory' rather than an emotion. I therefore wanted ...
