Self and Soul A Defense of Ideals
188 Ideals in the Modern World Experience. But Blake could simply not garner signifi cant attention. He tried to sell his illumi ...
The Poet 189 What does it mean, from Blake’s perspective, to be mentally im- prisoned? It means fi rst that you see the world fr ...
190 Ideals in the Modern World your neck and fl ing yourself into the abyss than to harm a child. The church, as Blake sees it, ...
The Poet 191 Blake may be thinking of the redcoats sent across the world to Ame- rica to try to put down the revolution, which B ...
192 Ideals in the Modern World seek love seek our other half, the individual who can complete us— make us whole, rather than par ...
The Poet 193 Compassion, courage, and erotic life have all fallen to disease in Blake’s world. So too has intellection: men and ...
194 Ideals in the Modern World call out to potential customers: “Sweep! Sweep!” But his actual words, “weep, weep,” evoke both h ...
The Poet 195 There are thousands of sweepers— “Dick, Joe, Ned, & Jack”— and all of them are locked up in black coffi ns. The ...
196 Ideals in the Modern World for his father & never want joy” (10). “Be a good boy”: that is, do your duty, obey your mast ...
The Poet 197 appalls” (27). But Blake also believes that within the old coffi n of religious dogma lies the prospect of resurrec ...
198 Ideals in the Modern World provoking. One fi nds an ally in the devil. In an age of timid confor- mity, you can turn toward ...
The Poet 199 “will come to pass,” Blake says, “by an improvement of sensual en- joyment” (39). Blake is a prophet of the redempt ...
200 Ideals in the Modern World imagination is vital for Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell and Neil Young and every rocker who sings ab ...
The Poet 201 there. Rather, the energies that once infused sexual desire have to be redirected (and subdued) in the quest for Tr ...
202 Ideals in the Modern World thinking of his overbearing patron William Hayley, but thinking also of all the time- conscious, ...
The Poet 203 but a warrior who sends his enemies tumbling into the fi ery abyss. The only sweet- natured fi gure in the poem is ...
204 Ideals in the Modern World therapeutic pro cess is in large mea sure the attempt to pry the indi- vidual away from his error ...
The Poet 205 As the layers of the Selfhood peel away in Blake’s self- analy sis, more possibilities open up for him. He comes to ...
206 Ideals in the Modern World from what oppresses him. He wants complete liberation— and he thinks that through the imagination ...
The Poet 207 a version of Self hood that bottles up an individual within himself and prevents his going out to merge with the be ...
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