/lit/ - Literature

Stoics did some exercises in contemplating their deaths, which is sort of YOLO. "Carpe" means pluck, and so carpe diem is a farming metaphor about plucking the day when it's ripe (rather than letting it wither). I do like vanitas vanitatum.

"I will work harder."

/Lit....I need your help.

So I just recently started reading William Blake for my British Literature class, and he is by far the most talent-less poet I have ever had the misfortune of reading. I tend to have very strong opinions about things, but I can usually set them aside to appreciate a work's value; but I see nothing worthy of appreciation in his poem. "Proverbs from Hell", for example, is mostly nonsense and contains both proverbs of virtue and vice, which means the title doesn't fit at all.

Maybe if Blake had spent less time derping around with his plates he would have been a better writer.Can any /literates/ out there help me find some meaning here? I'm completely clueless.

Pic extremely relevant, it's some of what I'm reading.