tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post832055744014779745..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: William Blake: Some Angels ("Everything is an attempt/To be Human")Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-18219323486188809432012-01-09T03:53:32.663-08:002012-01-09T03:53:32.663-08:00I like your entries, the depictions especially. Bl...I like your entries, the depictions especially. Blake still is not taken seriously enough for his art: such is the fate of visionaries. I hope you keep posting. For postings of a similar vein, tapping the unsayable: http://wrestlinggypsies.blogspot.comAugiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18343016292855192231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-38371987467654266722011-05-23T07:12:26.745-07:002011-05-23T07:12:26.745-07:00Curtis, actually I think you've expressed the ...Curtis, actually I think you've expressed the unique merging of the dichotomies in Blake's vision of angel(s) not only accurately but splendidly.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-61337103772893738712011-05-23T03:20:10.797-07:002011-05-23T03:20:10.797-07:00This is difficult to express accurately (and I apo...This is difficult to express accurately (and I apologize in advance if it sounds incoherent), but what I like most about this aren't the ironic "conclusions" reached, but the "process", i.e., the way the good and evil angels more resemble each other as entities experiencing the same difficult thing than they appear to be opposites, and the way the thwarted tortured figures in plates 1 and 3 seem (plate 1 especially) to embody some positive as well as negative aspects of human experience. (I told you this would be difficult to express accurately.) I love the drawing and the colors also. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-37269932375505045242011-05-19T07:24:05.923-07:002011-05-19T07:24:05.923-07:00Steve,
All, after all,
is being present, each “n...Steve,<br /><br />All, after all,<br /><br />is being present, each “now”<br />in its passing, which<br /><br />Chris,<br /><br />I hope it's good out there.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-25227013419645138542011-05-19T06:28:02.756-07:002011-05-19T06:28:02.756-07:00These poems and pictures make me want to put down ...These poems and pictures make me want to put down everything I am doing and go -- out.<br /><br />ChrisChrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04214178206307289834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-57221624711115822682011-05-18T06:56:38.233-07:002011-05-18T06:56:38.233-07:00Tom,
I heard an Angel singing
When the day was sp...Tom,<br /><br />I heard an Angel singing<br />When the day was springing. . .<br />. . .<br />Down poured the heavy rain. . .<br /><br /><br />5.18<br /><br />pink edge of cloud above still shadowed<br />plane of ridge, quail calling Chi-ca-go<br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> clouds easier to see source<br /> of light, to do these<br /><br /> is being present, each “now”<br /> in its passing, which<br /><br />grey rain cloud against invisible ridge,<br />whiteness of gull gliding above channelSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-89667760647237452862011-05-18T05:29:51.122-07:002011-05-18T05:29:51.122-07:00Save us!Save us!TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-14356894152830730032011-05-18T05:06:14.579-07:002011-05-18T05:06:14.579-07:00Oh my heart goes down reading both these poems tog...Oh my heart goes down reading both these poems together. And watching those pictures too. The presence of the poem's gay blessed lyric effects is a scourge for the reader<br /><br />And Misery's increase<br />Is Mercy, Pity, Peace.<br /><br />oh oh oh .. Lord!adityahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16078144194220301083noreply@blogger.com