>Did he who made the Lamb make thee?Why does this line go so hard?
>>25593689Because it questions how God can create something so powerful and dangerous but also so gentle and peaceful and thus in turn makes us reflect on our nature as humans. Or something, I dunno. I haven't thought of it much since highschool.
>>25593738>so gentle and peacefulI know the Lamb refers to Blake's other poem, but I like to interpret it as a reference to the Incarnation, of making the Word flesh, and that same allpower which joined godhead to manhood wrought the tyger's being.
>>25593689Fourth verse of four, where each verse and chorus are four lines long. Line in question begins with the same word as previous line. It is also the richest line as far as meaning goes in the sentence, and, as though it was breaking the fourth wall a bit, turns the attention of the poem outward briefly. Blake has lined up a number of cues to a reader that something big is going to happen on this line and he delivers.Blake is a confrontation driven guy. His neighborhood was dominated by one political party and he would strut through the streets with this big fucking hat on that identified him as a member of the rival party. He saw a fault in people's people's general understanding of God and when he brings it up he does so with that same aggressive spirit. This stuff mattered to him, it wasn't just an aesthetic quibble.>>25593802The Lamb is Christ. Blake has a idiosyncratic view of Christ but the Lamb is still Christ.
>>25593817What kills me about Blake is that he seems to have been a for-real mystic but he was just a stubborn fucking Anglo asshole about it.He repeatedly describes having all sorts of visions, of angels, demons, saints, and more, but he doesn't go to church, certainly doesn't become Catholic.He was either a schizophrenic or he's a mystic on par with St. John of the Cross, but if the latter is true then he couldn't be arsed to just become a proper Christian, which is deeply frustrating. What kind of Anglo bastard do you have to be when God is literally hitting you over the head with the reality of the Christian ordering of the cosmos but you still won't go to the chapel on Sundays? Take the fucking hint.
>>25593689Its easy to see god in the soft, peaceful, beneficient, gentle pleasures of existence, but can you see god in the vicious, the terrifying & feral, the inhuman & anti-human, the destructive & malevolent? Can you hold true simultaneously that on one hand god created sunshine & rainbows & ponies, & on the other god also created cordyceps and cancer and Mexican cartel torture? Can you swallow the problem of evil?
>>25593860If God is already visiting your head and giving you visions, wouldn't going to Sunday mass be redundant?
>>25593860>doesn't go to churchBased
playful fun with cute small lambs
>>25593860If god is already talking to you directly, what's the point of going to a special building once a week?
>>25593860Maybe because a lot of what God was telling him indicted the church was wrong. If Blake was genuinely schizophrenic, which is a real possibility, he is the same kind of schizophrenic as the author of Revelations. There is no cause to dismiss one of you aren't willing to dismiss the other.
>>25593860He also saw the fay as a child.
>>25594547>small lambsPleonasm.
>>25593860I deeply despise you and your way of thinking. Very based behaviour by Blake.
>>25593689Congratulations on thinking about poetry for the first time (unironically)
>>25593689https://youtu.be/PdqZHr7W1n0?si=rqtYImqYXgf0dyZQ
>>25593689>rhyming eye with symmetryit's like a mouthful of faeces
>>25593689This shit is why people dont like poetry, its so utterly cringeworthy, incredible. Did YHWH the Jewish lord, our God and father (male and Jewish by the way) create the lamb and you too, Tyger? Oh my, it seems he acted in folly, by golly, who could frame thy fearful symmetreye?! I hate this shit.
>>25593860All mystics have always had to sort of begrudgingly accept the much lower-level religious authorities and their institutions of power that insist pantheism is a heresy, and kinda walk on thin ice and speak in veiled metaphors to remain faithful to their direct experience of pantheism without technically ascribing to pantheism. If there is no cultural pressure to remain in line with those low-level authorities as was the case in England, why would one actively seek them out?
