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“Were you thinking that those were the words, those upright lines?
Those curves, angles, dots?
No, those are not the words, the substantial words are in
The ground and sea, they are in the air, they are in you.”40
Blake’s visionary and prophetic Romanticism adumbrates dualism’s Mytho-poetic, magical-divine. The divine realm never denies its other: innocence cannot co-exist without experience, and experience cannot coexist without innocence. Marvelously, Blake’s illuminated frontispieces illuminate and fuse these synergies.
Thus, angelic children, lambs and pastoral scenes dwell in quintessential harmony in both microcosms: innocence and experience. The SE’s angelic child, our eternal soul- companion and guide, journeys with us in joy and sorrow, light and twilight, symmetry and asymmetry: he is experience’s energy source. Whether our journeys carry us to shadowy trees, or subliminal skies, or penumbrous forests, or phosphorescent clearings, the divine in their lofty spirits dwells: in the mischief of SI’s innocent child and in the mercy, pity and peace of SE’s angelic child. Their lofty consciousness partakes in all our struggles, our rebellions, awakening us towards Poesy’s divine spirit 3⁄4
40 Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. “A Song of the Rolling Earth.” New York: Random House Inc., 1993. 275.
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