A Visit to William Blake's Inn | Teaching Setting, Symbolism and Objects

Object Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major objects in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Objects

Blake's Inn - Rendered in the illustrations in 3-D, this place is the setting for most of the action in the poems.

Featherbeds - This object sheds feathers that show up as snow far away and appears in the rooms. Children use the feathers that fall from this object to make snowmen.

Blake's Wonderful Car - This object has wheels, a bird's head and tail, helicopter-like spinning blades, flags, and a hot air balloon.

The Fire - Considered attractive for being bright with a hissing sound, this object warms up the travelers.

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