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[Anonymous No.23506519]

Thoughts on the poetry of William Blake?

[Anonymous No.23506523]

excellent. get a book that includes the artwork too
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[Anonymous No.23506539]

>>23506523
I'm going through Songs of Experience right now and I find many of the poems incredibly powerful, though I'm new to poetry so I wasn't sure how his work is regarded. I've been particularly impacted so far by The Sick Rose, Nurse's Song and The Little Vagabond. Unfortunately no artwork included :/

[Anonymous No.23506605]

One poem very apt for today:

"The Little Black Boy"

My mother bore me in the southern wild,
And I am black, but O! my soul is white;
White as an angel is the English child:
But I am black as if bereav'd of light.

My mother taught me underneath a tree
And sitting down before the heat of day,
She took me on her lap and kissed me,
And pointing to the east began to say.

Look on the rising sun: there God does live
And gives his light, and gives his heat away.
And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive
Comfort in morning joy in the noonday.

And we are put on earth a little space,
That we may learn to bear the beams of love,
And these black bodies and this sun-burnt face
Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove.

For when our souls have learn'd the heat to bear
The cloud will vanish we shall hear his voice.
Saying: come out from the grove my love & care,
And round my golden tent like lambs rejoice.

Thus did my mother say and kissed me,
And thus I say to little English boy.
When I from black and he from white cloud free,
And round the tent of God like lambs we joy:

Ill shade him from the heat till he can bear,
To lean in joy upon our fathers knee.
And then I'll stand and stroke his silver hair,
And be like him and he will then love me.

[Anonymous No.23506636]

When I got a puppy I was petting him and I thought of William Blake's poem The Lamb and it made me tear up
>Little Lamb who made thee
> Dost thou know who made thee
>Gave thee life & bid thee feed.
>By the stream & o'er the mead;
>Gave thee clothing of delight,
>Softest clothing wooly bright;
>Gave thee such a tender voice,
>Making all the vales rejoice!
> Little Lamb who made thee
> Dost thou know who made thee

[Anonymous No.23506689]

>>23506519
Best sort of madlad

[Anonymous No.23506706]

>>23506519
The Northrop Frye biography filtered me :(

[Anonymous No.23506783]

>>23506706
Why?

[Anonymous No.23507336]

>>23506519
b-b-b-b-based
pour moi, c'est : blake = keats > shelley > coleridge = byron > wordsworth
et vous ?

[Anonymous No.23507422]

gematria shenanigans led me to Blake today and now I see this thread. What does it mean?

[Anonymous No.23508125]

>>23507336
>shelley that high
kys

[Anonymous No.23508249]

>>23508125
That’s bysshe Shelley

[Anonymous No.23508255]

>>23508249
We all know, retard.

[Anonymous No.23508482]

>>23506519
Where is my golden palace?
Where my ivory bed?
Where the joy of my morning hour?
Where the sons of eternity singing.

[Anonymous No.23508486]

>>23507336
Where's Southey?