Community Blog Post

After searching through many of the blogs one caught my attention. The blog “Lord Byron” written by Natasha King, Danielle Henry, Alejandra Hernandez, and Sydney Leliefeld is very interesting. When you first go to their page it say’s right at the top that it will tell you everything that you need to know about Lord Byron which is helpful. Their background is also pretty cool. I like that it’s all about Byron I think he is a very interesting poet. A post written by Danielle Henry was really interesting it was called “Lord Byron: So Much For Love”. I really liked it because it gave information that I wasn’t really expecting to see. I learned a lot about Lord Byron’s personal life and how different of a person he was. The video she put up was very nice as well. Having the choice to watch a video was pretty cool since not that many groups chose to use them. Another post that struck me was “The Life of Byron” by Natasha King. This post let me know more about his schooling and his life in general. It was interesting to see how he became who he was. I would have never thought that Lord Byron would be interesting to read about until now. Learning that he was a bisexual person shocked me and reading how different his personal life was really made me want to know more about his life.if you don’t know anything about romanticism this blog will help. It has many different poems of Lord Byron and personal interpretations of them. If you don’t like poetry this blog is still interesting because it has topics that make you want to read more about like Byron’s love life and how he had a relationship with his own half sister. There’s even a post that has to do with vampires since supposedly Lord Byron was a big inspiration when it came to vampire legends. This blog did a really good job with letting you know everything you wanted to know about Lord Byron and more! They also have an interesting picture about their inspiration for their blog. 

Blake's Paintings

This picture always appears when you search up anything about William Blake and his Europe  prophecy. The picture is very interesting and captivating. At first glance you see an old man down on one knee with his hand extending down, making what looks like a perfect 90 degree angle with his fingers. It also looks like the man is up in the clouds. Looking at it more closely you can see that it’s not a perfect angle and you begin to wonder why Blake made it that way. It also makes you wonder who the old man is and how is he significant to the picture. From my point of view Blake didn’t make the angle perfect because he didn’t believe in science. I believe that the old man in the painting is supposed to be himself. Since the old man isn’t making a perfect angle he messed it up on purpose. Blake was into religion more and he made fun of many scientists in some of his other paintings. He was against most of the connventional thinking he belived in the divinty of things more. This painting was made from a metal stamp. Blake and his wife etched this picture out of a piece of metal first. Then stamped it and used it as an outline for the painting.

The next picture that shows up when searching William Blakes Europe prophecy is this snake picture. The snake is really big and evil looking but that’s usually how most snakes looks to me. The big snake has a small resemblance to a dragon because it has a small horn on it’s head and it has scaley skin. I wondered why Blake chose a snake for this prophecy. When I read the prophecy the snake didn’t have a big role in it. The snake came from “infinite” being changed into a serpent that scared away man. The serpent is obviously bad if it scared away man. I don’t understand how it was that the serpent came from “Infinte”. I don’t really know what Blake wanted “infinte” to be if it was an object or a person. Why would the snake want to scare man away? What did man ever do to the snake or “Infinite”?

HIM (Prose Poem)

She hears her alarm go off. She slowly reaches over to grab her phone to turn the annoying sound off. Once the silence comes back she lies down in her bed and covers her head with the blanket creating a small comforting place under there. She unfortunately only gets a small amount of resting time because then her retired army dad bursts into the room yelling at her to wake up and get ready for yet another boring day of school.

Once at school she starts counting down the hours until He wakes up. Today however He ends up surprising her and texts her first earlier than usual. After a while of texting they end up coming up with a plan to see each other.

After school ends she starts getting really nervous and excited for what she will do tonight. At home she acts like normal so her dad won’t suspect anything. She sits in her room staring out of the window waiting for the sky to go black and the moon to come out and cover her lies. She lays immobile in her bed. Never knowing when her dad could come in and rue her day. Her body cold and blazing at once, stiff she waits for the lies to begin. Silence has come to comfort her again. She knows it is time, she loses control. Rapidly she collects her belongings, and reaches for the door handle.  Without a thought, her body begins to move mechanically. As she remembers what she has done many times before. Silently she pulls the door open, hoping not to make a noise she moves her feet swiftly down the hall. She makes it all the way to the front door and stops. Trying to calm herself down she takes a couple of deep breaths, then steps out into the cold, dark embrace of the night.

Once outside she feels like a caged animal finally released into the wild. She sprints to her car and starts driving. At first she forgets where she was supposed to go because of the rush of adrenaline that is running through her body right now. Her car ends up parked on a street under a light. Looking out of her window she realizes where she is and she starts to get scared. She tells Him to come out and meet her halfway.

Stepping out of the car she starts to question herself. Why does she lie for this? What makes Him so special? She knows she shouldn’t be here, but still keeps walking towards Him. Her questions all go away when their eyes meet. Seeing His eyes is never the same. Those eyes are very unique. Deep pools of green, hazel, and blue tints full of acceptance.

Summary of Europe: A Prophecy by Wiliam Blake Part 2

William Blake’s Europe Prophecy is very lengthy and mythological. It has many different characters that form an intricate story. The prophecy jumps around a lot and was a little hard for me to follow.

Once winter starts in the story Enitharmon sees a meeting that is going on with her sons and daughters. Urizen is released and his sons seize all spirits of life out of envy of Los, possessor of the moon.  Orc, Enitharmon’s eldest born is then awakened. Rintrah and Palamabron are also released they are sent to tell the humans that women’s love is a sin and they might have a chance at eternal life. Rintrah is commanded to go and bring more “people” if that’s what they are or more characters. I would like to know why Blake didn’t explain the relationship between the characters better. Also why he didn’t make it more obvious what the characters were if they were monsters? Or gods?  Enitharmon then goes to sleep for a very long time. During the time that she sleeps the story goes into describing that the heavens of Europe are divided.

Albion’s angel leaves. What happens after is a cloud filled with demons crushes a council house that was filled with Albion’s angels. They were buried under the ruins until a fiery king brings them back. “Thought” changes “Infinite” to a serpent whether it’s a character or an object I don’t know, but the serpent scares man away. Eternal forests are divided into earths rolling in circles in space. This is probably talking about how the planets were created. Man became an angel. An ancient guardian then arrives.

Albion’s angel sees Urizen on the Atlantic with a book that has been copied on earth by kings and priest. The book I’m guessing would be the bible since the priest has it. The guardian then leaves driven away by the flames of Orc. Europe celebrates this and Orc is happy as well to hear shadows howling again. But Palamabron shoots his “lightings” at his back. Rintrah and his legions end up in the “nether deep”.

Enitharmon wakes up to find “woman’s triumph” she also calls all of her sons and daughters. They came to meet her but left as soon as the sun was coming up which left Enitharmon sad. Orc released his “light of fury in the vineyards of red France”. All his terrors came on golden chariots and went around with red wheels, dripping with blood. The lions and tigers did horrible things and all Enitharmon did was watch and cry. Los had to come and “call all his son’s to the strife of blood”. I wonder why Enitharmon did nothing but cry why didn’t she try and stop Orc? I also wanted to know why Los came and basically declared war on Orc.

Summary of Europe: A Prophecy by William Blake Part 1

The prophecy was written in two parts a preludium then the prophecy. After analyzing the preludium I came to the conclusion that it doesn't sound like it should connect to the prophecy. The preludium sounded like it completely changed halfway through and I don't know why Blake did that, it made me really confused and I ended up with a lot of questions. I didn't know what to expect when I started reading this prophecy, but it definitely wasn't talking fairy's. What I understood from the preludium was how the cave man connected to nature. Demonstrating how man used to be before colonization and the existence of material things. He was amazed by a singing "Fairy" showing how open minded people were before society formed prejudice. The "Fairy" dictates EUROPE while the cave man writes it down. I wonder why Blake made the “Fairy” speak and dictate the prophecy, also why he had to put a “Fairy” in there and not something else.

A nameless shadowy female comes into the story. She starts complaining about being brought to life in this world with other people, because she feels like "Mother Enitharmon" is going to forget about her. “Mother Enitharmon” represents God or some higher power. The nameless female brings evil to the world shown by “all-devouring fiery kings”. They bring horrible terrors to the world devouring everything. Then she realizes what she did was wrong and asks "Mother Enitharmon" for forgiveness and to stomp the evil kings and take them away. By asking for forgiveness it shows that everybody has a good side and everyone has a choice, most of the time its our experiences that make the choices for us. Once “Mother Enitharmon” sees that she is genuinely sorry and really regrets what she did, she pardons her. The shadowy female dies in peace after being forgiven.

I was confused about what this shadowy female had to do with anything and why she had to be a “nameless shadowy female”. Did Blake make her nameless and shadowy so that it would be easier to visualize her as a bad person? Or a person who made a mistake and wanted to take back what they did?