1) I do not agree with the editors of my textbook that Blake had the ability to to enact social change with his poetry. I do not agree because I don't believe that anybody is capable of bringing that much power to people just through poetry. Most people don't know what is going in a poem they are reading, so I don't think that Blake's poems were able to make change in the society he was living in. '
2.) The editors may have included the Parliament transcript as a primary source to show that social change was actually occurring during the time of his poetry. This did not affect my reading of the poem because I don't believe that one poem was able to change the way society acted, I think it was clearly just a big coincidence that it all happened at the same time as Blake's poetry being released.
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