Cruelty has a human heart,
And Jealousy a human face;
Terror the human form divine,
And Secresy the human dress.
The human dress is forged iron,
The human form a fiery forge,
The human face a furnace sealed,
The human heart its hungry gorge.
Cruelty has a human heart,
And Jealousy a human face;
Terror the human form divine,
And Secresy the human dress.
The human dress is forged iron,
The human form a fiery forge,
The human face a furnace sealed,
The human heart its hungry gorge.
November 17, 2006 at 9:01 am |
This hungry forge is so appropos to the image presented here, or vice versa. I feel in this intonation, perhaps through the years of placticine synthetic emotion and even artistry, the only true sentiments are those of disbelief and disavowel of true sentiment. This poem once was great and poignant, now seems altogether farcical and what a shame it is. The image almost describes and informs the reality of which I speak in a manner that smacks of the sentiment documented in Blake’s lines, only revitalized.
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February 9, 2007 at 4:44 am |
Yeah I have to agree sometimes I show a little jealousy And it has a face
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October 20, 2007 at 5:11 pm |
“A divine image”- cruelty, jealousy and terror- this could be television itself. It makes us wonder doesn’t it what our friend would have thought of modern media? I believe he would have resisted the fakery and the distortion of reality.
February 25, 2008 at 8:45 pm |
I see these attributes in other animals, too — even to include my dog. Perhaps God, if you are a believer, is the cruel one for creating life the way He did.
November 15, 2008 at 4:04 pm |
a very touchy poem and made me see things with a human touch!
January 6, 2009 at 9:43 pm |
I really hate the image no ifence
January 6, 2009 at 9:43 pm |
i really dislike the image no ofence
January 10, 2009 at 2:00 pm |
Seems to describe negative human attributes, and the second stanza emphasizes that each is present as part of our make-up in this fallen world of materialism. Implies there is something “higher” or better beyond these.
February 11, 2009 at 4:16 pm |
Its sometimes difficult for we of the present day to “get” archaic literature. For those long ago people everything revolved around the god of the last 1000 years, it was much more tanigble and real for them. We really are living in the dying times of an epoch of human experience. Personally,I would rather have belonged either to the old one, or to the once that will be, not my choice. I like the literature that describes our condition now, it is appropriately apocalyptic.I think this condition is also the source of the revival of religious fundamentalism around the world. The “end” is here, its just not what they think.
February 11, 2009 at 4:30 pm |
And I have to agree with Bob…i dont ike the image either. I detest “anime”. It is soooooooo vacant. Its all cliche. Its like a collection of each of the most inane and stupid, empty visual and “literary” cliche’s of the late 20th century, in cheap cartoon form.