Tag: Blake

• The ‘Meaning’ of Christmas?

  I’ve an annual soft-spot for John Betjeman’s Christmas poem. I’m an unashamed lover, not of what Betjeman calls the “tissued fripperies”, but of the stories, though they’re not history; the carols, though their ‘theology’ seems past its ‘use-by’ date; the Old Testament quotes, though they’re dubiously ‘borrowed’ to spice up the mix; and the music…

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  23rd Dec 2022

  Christianity, Christmas, Composer, Jesus of Nazareth, New Testament, Poetry, Religion

  Betjeman, Blake, Christmas, Christmas Concerto, Corelli, Meaning, Music, Nativity, Poem, Stories

• Fern Hill (Dylan Thomas)

  Fern Hill was the farm, rented by his aunt Annie, at which young Dylan Thomas spent summer holidays, and is ‘remembered’ in the poem as a place where “all the sun long“, there poured forth “rivers of .. windfall light“, so much so that “it was all shining“.  For me, this isn’t a poem for…

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  26th Mar 2021

  Literature, Philosophy, Poetry, Religion

  Art, Awareness, Blake, Childlike, Eden, Time

• Appearance, Reality, and William Blake ( pt.2)

  In a poem entitled ‘The Everlasting Gospel‘, William Blake wrote,  In ‘Auguries of Innocence’, however, when we do look “Thro’ the Eye”, this enables us,  In this second of two posts, let’s look at the lines from “Auguries of Innocence“. In the previous post, we saw that we can now picture ‘ultimate reality’ to be…

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  12th Mar 2021

  Literature, Philosophy, Religion, Science

  Awareness, Blake, Buddha, Infinity, Oneness, Poem

• Appearance, Reality, and William Blake (pt.1)

  In a poem entitled ‘The Everlasting Gospel‘, William Blake wrote, In his ‘Auguries of Innocence‘, however, when we do look “thro’ the Eye”, this enables us, In this first of two posts, let’s look at the lines from “The Everlasting Gospel“. The “five windows of the soul” are the five senses which give us information…

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  10th Mar 2021

  Philosophy, Poetry, Religion, Science

  Appearance, Blake, Mind, Poetry, Reality

• Trees and Us – William Blake and Martin Buber

  WILLIAM BLAKE, poet : about awakening to an awareness of belonging to the one totally interwoven web of all life and being … “A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”  “The tree which moves some to tears of joy, is in the eyes of others only a green thing which…

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  26th Feb 2021

  Consciousness, Environment, Literature, Philosophy, Poetry

  Blake, Buber, I-Thou, Philosophy, Poetry, Trees