tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34585979.post4106554256166080954..comments2024-02-13T13:39:31.292-05:00Comments on William Blake: Religion and Psychology: POETRYLarry Claytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11571190213288384302noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34585979.post-35511259966228136292017-09-05T17:18:51.019-04:002017-09-05T17:18:51.019-04:00Thanks Susan for the comment and poem.
Aren't...Thanks Susan for the comment and poem.<br /><br />Aren't we glad to have two brain hemispheres to facilitate enjoying the concrete and the abstract? Dickinson welds together multiple images to transport us to dimension where we lose the particulars in the whole.<br /><br />ellieellie Claytonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13708032405797473211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34585979.post-16957578708695027482017-09-03T10:03:57.276-04:002017-09-03T10:03:57.276-04:00Thank you for this post and your previous one, Ell...Thank you for this post and your previous one, Ellie - they speaks to my condition this morning - I was speaking with a friend yesterday, who loves poetry but devotes himself to detailed "left brain" analysis of biblical texts, world mythology, etc. He himself quoted this Emily Dickinson poem:<br /><br />Split the lark and you ’ll find the music, <br /> Bulb after bulb, in silver rolled, <br />Scantily dealt to the summer morning, <br /> Saved for your ear when lutes be old. <br /> <br />Loose the flood, you shall find it patent, <br /> Gush after gush, reserved for you; <br />Scarlet experiment! sceptic Thomas, <br /> Now, do you doubt that your bird was true? <br />Susan J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07676460547965873094noreply@blogger.com