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Late at night, aloud to self, in the dark. And then feel it burn the back of your mind.
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This was originally an extensive conversation with me in the bathroom. For me, most of them either end up as amusing footnotes in Oral Bath...
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When I began the course on Art, Theory and Criticism at Jnanapravaha , I thought I knew what I was getting into. Chiefly, I thought that...
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I had no fucking idea! It's incredibly shocking to me, that despite having read, spoken, argued, participated in and discussed...
Chant this.
ReplyDeleteI'm quite weary of The Lamb but this blows me away everytime. I really hope they ask Blake.
ReplyDeleteWhat the hammer? What the chain,
In what furnace was thy brain?
is this Blake by any chance ? I was once going through images of songs of innocence and experience and it looked something like this.
ReplyDeletePS - i too admire Blake. And this is an understatement
I'm borrowing this picture.
ReplyDeleteIt is a chant, isn't it? :)
ReplyDeleteIt seems The Lamb exists only in relation to The Tyger. All the criticism I've read pretty much confirms this, and strangely this isn't true for any of his other poems from either of the Songs.
Yes, it is Blake.
:) Which reminds me, I forgot to give credits for the picture. And have you noticed, the 'tyger' is smiling?
It has a cross on its eyes. Which freaks the hell out of me.
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Yes, and that smile. There were three drafts of this poem, corresponding to the three stages of the French Revolution. And in each of those drafts which have illustrations, the tyger has different eyes and a different smile. Now that, is either creepy or simply a conspiracy. You never know with Blake, considering how ambiguous he is!
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