a divine image

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.

prose poem

 Anger is a funny thing i think as i die it causes love hate and many other things. Oh no I'm being shot at i thought as i dove behind cover and got ready to shoot back while breathing hard adrenaline coursing through my veins should i run or not. but not to worry this is just a video game, just a good way to let off some steam and get angry at an inanimate object or a person far away for i feel the need to hurt something but know i need to suppress it because hurting another living thing would be bad. better to just sit on the couch and hurt imaginary people on a television screen or mash buttons on a controller because then there is no hurting because how could i hurt someone its just not right to want to do something like that no better to just sit on the couch and let the anger slowly fade away than to express it on anything living that would only create a vicious circle of pain and anger. to take out your anger on another person is just giving someone else your pain and then giving them anger to take out on someone. it is like asking someone to pay you back twofold for what you have done. So ill just sit here and play my violent video games so no one gets hurt. all of this runs through the mind  as i jump out from behind the wall and spray machine gun fire down the hallway but there is no one there. BANG! oh crap dead again and adding rage to the fire maybe this isn't a good way of coping oh well someday ill snap but for now I'm dead again.

community blog

While searching for a resource to help me better understand william blakes poetry i found this blog called william blake and his poetry. on this blog i found some interesting interpertations of william blakes poems. The background of the blog was also very fun. on this blog there is interpertations on poison tree, songs of innocence, black and white, and the human abstract. the blog goes on to explain that blake started off with art and engravings which he later transfered to poetry by engraving all of his poems. the bloggers on william blake and his poetry also found that blake had been seeing god angels and demons since age 4 which i thought was very interesting. the blog also explains some of the major infuences in his art work and poetry. some of the influences were his brother who had died. this blog says that robert(his brother) was a huge infuence on williams art and poetry they also claim that william believed to have spoken with angels and demons and also saw his brothers soul. Elizabeth Martinez one of the blogs writers claims that he did his first engraving while apprenticed to a man called James Basire who influenced his first engraving "Joseph of Arimathea amoung the Rocks of Albion". Elizabeth goes on to say that he married at the age of twenty-five to catherine boucher who is said to have helped him write the songs of innocence.
  I find it very interesting that he opened a print shop with a man called John Flaxman and that it didnt do well considering how famous his poems are now you would think that he would have done very well for himself with all the poems he wrote but poetry must be like art work its not famous or worth very much unless the artist or poet is dead. The blog william blake and his poetry had alot of interesting facts about william blakes life that i never would have known if i hadnt checked that blog. it also has much more interesting facts than displayed here but you will have to check it out to see them.