After a brief hiatus over the Christmas and New Year period (because apparently virtual hats and topic challenges are too much fun to have all at the same time), Lit.SE topic challenges are back!
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges, and since the list of suggestions has a single highest-voted entry as January nears its end, it's time to announce the next topic challenge! Throughout February 2018, our topic challenge, proposed by Rand al'Thor, will be
Songs of Innocence and of Experience, by William Blake.
As with the previous announcements, I'm posting this before the actual start of the challenge, so that people have time to see this meta, read the poems, prepare their questions, and so forth. The topic challenge itself will start on the 1st of February.
What's a topic challenge?
See the meta posts linked above, and also this main meta post. In short, during February we should all try to read (at least some of) Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, and to post thoughtful and interesting questions about them.
Participation is not obligatory in any sense, but those who participate will be forever remembered in the annals of our history. And of course it goes without saying that questions on other works are more than welcome during February too; they just won't count as part of this topic challenge.
How can I take part?
By getting hold of the poems, in whatever language you prefer, and asking good questions about them. (The collection is out of copyright and available in full at Project Gutenberg.) These questions should be tagged with william-blake and poetry and either songs-of-innocence or songs-of-experience, and other tags if applicable. We'll keep a list of all such questions in an answer to this meta post.
What's next?
- Vote here for the next topic challenge, or propose your own!
