![]() Over the doors "Thou shalt not", & over the chimneys "Fear" is written : With spectres, and the Windows wove over with curses of iron : (K216)ġ2Enitharmon calls Palamabron "horned priest" (K240), and with him, she imposes the domination of the female will in Europe:Įnitharmon laugh'd in her sleep to see (O woman’s triumph!)Įvery house a den, every man bound: the shadows are fill’d The characteristic institutions of Enitharmon’s world are exposed in other poems, such as "London," with its lines on marriage:īut most thro'midnight streets I hear How the youthfulĪnd blights with plagues the Marriage hearse. Only one child will refuse to answer her call: Antamon, because he precisely represents gratified desire, and therefore wants to escape Enitharmon’s world.ġ1Beyond this vision of the relationship between repressed sex and sexual dreams, and his anticipating psychoanalytical theories according to which frustrated sex may be a source of desire for war, Blake presents us here with a picture of life in the Christian eighteenth century as waiting for deliverance. The family is completed with Thiralatha, who will preside over sexual dreams while Sotha will see to sexual impulses being transformed into war instincts. "Spread nets in every secret path." (K240)ġ0As a consequence, most of her children, whom she calls to action in Europe, stand for corrupted forms of love: Ocalythron represents jealousy, Enthinthus frustration, Vanathu Vorcyon the delusion of sex, whereas Leutha symbolizes the repression of sex under law (religious laws in particular). "Forbid all Joy, & from her childhood shall the little female ![]() "In an allegorical abode where existence hath never corne "And that an Etemal life awaits the worms of sixty winters "Go! tell the Human race that Woman's love is Sin "Who dies for Love of her'In torments of fierce jealousy & pangs ofĩHer world is therefore characterised by a perverted vision of love, and by extension, she is linked with the church and the religion of chastity and vengeance in Europe: "The joy of woman is the death of her most best beloved ![]() (K231)ĨIn "Vala, or the Four Zoas," she States her vision even more clearly "In Eden our loves were the same here they are opposite." (K732)ħIn "The Book of Urizen", she renews the frustrating attitude: "Let man’s delight be Love, but Woman's delight be Pride. "be thou assured I never will be thy slave. "Of blood thro'all my nervous limbs " (K732)Ħshe answers with anachronistic feminist overtones: "Of beauty & perfection, my wild fibres shoot in veins "Moving beside me till, intoxicated with the woven labyrinth "O lovely Enitharmon! I behold thy graceful forms As Los tries to woo her in his symbolical language in Jerusalem: The poet therefore associates the domination of woman and the Christian religion. Enitharmon, as their daughter, represents the world as placed under the domination of woman. Tharmas is the emanation of Albion that Controls the body, Enion, his emanation, represents the generative instinct. She is the daughter of Tharmas and Enion. (K239)ĥIn Blake’s vision of Albion, the Universal Man, the Christian era is placed under the seal of Enitharmon. War ceas'd, & all the troops like shadows fled into their abodes. (K240) 1ĤThe birth of Jesus Christ, which marks the beginning of this period, is recorded at the very beginning of the prophecy:ĭescended thro'the orient gates of the eternal day : The night of Nature and her harps unstrung!Įighteen hundred years, a female dream.
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