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1 day ago · Monday 08 July 2024. Issue. Blake painted ‘mind-forg’d manacles’. Blake’s revolutionary contributions are often deliberately obscured. Alive from 1757 to 1827, Blake wrote during the rise ...
3 days ago · To try to live in the "when" of the future or the "then" of the past always involves an artificiality, a separating one's self from reality; for in actuality one exists in the present. The past has meaning as it lights up the present, and the future as it makes the present richer and more profound. Rollo May.
4 days ago · Auguries Of Innocence. To see a world in a grain of sand. And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand. And eternity in an hour. A robin redbreast in a cage. Puts all heaven in a rage. A dove- house filled with doves and pigeons. Shudders hell through all its regions.
1 day ago · The Chimney-sweeper. When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue. Could scarcely cry "Weep! weep! weep! weep!" So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
2 days ago · An analysis of the To Autumn poem by William Blake including schema, poetic form, metre, stanzas and plenty more comprehensive statistics.
1 day ago · I read a quote this morning, in a newsletter I generally enjoy, that just made me instantly sad: “Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.”—William Blake I know too many people who’ve hurt those close to them, who’ve regretted the results of believing that something was okay not to control because they were “passionate” about it.
2 days ago · Pity by William Blake, 1795, is an illustration of two similes in Macbeth: "And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, hors'd
