It was early morning; I sat in the breakfast room reading the paper. Then I turned to Kathleen Raines' Blake and Antiquity. It led to some deep thoughts about life, death-- the various meanings of those two words, and especially how much Blake's poetry and pictures parallel Eastern Religion. Suddenly these two verses from Gates of Paradise popped into my head (click on Of the Gates):
13. But when once I did descry
The Immortal Man that cannot die,
14. Thro' evening shades I haste away
To close the labours of my day.
(Should this link go on the chapter on Poetry or the chapter on Myth?)
Blake frequently gives us the fundamental truths of life and death, but clothed in a symbology that we have to learn to get the full impact.
1 comment:
Cool, but I'm waiting for your explanation!
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