reading response #3

Magnetic cure in william Blakes the french revolution is written by Robert pix. this author believes that william Blake was discussing a cure which involved "manipulating a fluid that permeates all living things but in the sick people the fluid was disrupted and the practitioner had to manipulate the flow until it was back to normal". the author of the article says that a reference to animal magnetism is Orleans strange breathing upon the assembly, the author believes that this is a metaphor for animal magnetism because some of the actions of animal magnetism are breathing on or stroking the subject.  the author also explains that Blake symbolizes Frances reawakening with the image of frozen blood re flowing which reminds of the head English magnitizer, john De mainauduc: "the stagnant blood must be pushed on the circulation." Blake writes throughout his poems and in this one about religious things but in this one the writer (Pix) says that the poem is almost entirely religious or about something that wasn't proven to work at that time, such works had to be proven somehow though. Animal magnetism based its cures on connecting religion and human, the unseen to the seen. pix says that in a marriage between heaven and hell Blake refers to the folly of churches and alludes to his own message as salutary and medicinal. this topic reflects our topic by its focus on william blake which is whom the entire blog is about but i picked this article to talk about and review because i thought that animal magnitism made blake sound more interesting to me and hopefully to you readers as well. animal magnitism is a strange concept but i think that the author(Pix) was trying to get a cross is that william blake did not like or associate himself with the churche very often and animal magnitism was a good way that was easy to believe in to distance himself further from the church.
now it is entirely possible that even though it may seem like william blake is trying to distance himself from the church that he instead was very attached to it and wanted to come up with other ways that god or other religious things made since because all the animal magnitism was was trying to deal with something that you cant see. the religious aspect of his poems though seems to be fairly high because almost all of william blakes poems have some sort of religious reference to them and it would make sense that with all the religous things in william blakes poems that he was trying to support the current popular god. on the other hand it does seem like william blake is dissing on the church not necessarily god but he was definitely puting down the church quite a bit. so maybe he was tryrng not to help out the church but to try and reconnect the human population to things unseen similar to the senses that we talked about the human race dulling or losing that connected us to nature in a better way. some of the poems make me think that when ever he thought of poems he felt sad because when ever there was god or church in the poems there was also a sadder part that kind of lurked behind the scenes. it was probalby the death of his younger brother that adds that sadness to his poems that was also one of the first times he had claimed to have talked with devils angels and demons.