"Forgetfulness, dumbness, necessity! / In chains of the mind locked up, / Like fetters of ice shrinking together."
— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
Lambeth
Publisher
William Blake
Date
1794
Metaphor
"Forgetfulness, dumbness, necessity! / In chains of the mind locked up, / Like fetters of ice shrinking together."
Metaphor in Context
4. Forgetfulness, dumbness, necessity!
In chains of the mind locked up,
Like fetters of ice shrinking together
Disorganiz'd, rent from Eternity,
Los beat on his fetters of iron;
And heated his furnaces & pour'd
Iron sodor and sodor of brass
(plate 10)
In chains of the mind locked up,
Like fetters of ice shrinking together
Disorganiz'd, rent from Eternity,
Los beat on his fetters of iron;
And heated his furnaces & pour'd
Iron sodor and sodor of brass
(plate 10)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "chain" in HDIS (Poetry); See also Blake Archive Copy A
Citation
William Blake, The First Book of Urizen (Lambeth, 1794). <Link to Blake Archive>
Date of Entry
09/16/2013
