William Blake


 * Was deliberately outrageous, in order to challenge people to think differently. To leave their “intellectual comfort zone.”
 * Was not interested in being clear, in upholding Enlightenment ideals
 * “That which can be made Explicit to the Idiot is not worth my care.” -p. 114 of Norton
 * Called Bacon, Newton, and Locke “the infernal trio.”
 * Bacon of scientific method, experimentation, scientific utopia
 * Newton -gravity, light, entirely ration physical and moral universe
 * Locke – tabula rasa, sensational psychology (theory on how the mind operates and how knowledge is gained, we have no preconcious thought, morals, identity before birth. We are the product of our experiences.)
 * The poem doesn’t seem to resemble a poem:
 * A list with things numbered (Roman numerals)
 * Satirization of the scientific method