Till we arise link'd in a golden band, and never part,īut walk united, bearing food to all our tender flowers." The weeping virgin trembling kneels before the risen sun, Unseen descending, weigh my light wings upon balmy flowers,Īnd court the fair eyed dew, to take me to her shining tent: It is to tenfold life, to love, to peace, and raptures holy: Nothing remains? O maid, I tell thee, when I pass away,
Where Luvah doth renew his horses? Look'st thou on my youth,Īnd fearest thou because I vanish and am seen no more, "O virgin, know'st thou not our steeds drink of the golden springs Hovering and glittering on the air before the face of Thel. The Cloud then shew'd his golden head & his bright form emerg'd, I pass away, yet I complain, and no one hears my voice." Then we shall seek thee but not find ah, Thel is like to Thee. Why thou complainest not when in one hour thou fade away: Juxtaposition: Marriage and Death side by side."O little Cloud," the virgin said, "I charge thee tell to me, "blights": disease, "hearse": a vehicle used for carrying coffins. "Harlots curse": STDs.īlasts the new-born Infants tear And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse A repetition of the symbolism of the colour black. "midnight": dead of the night, heavy darkness and blackness. The metaphorical blood runs down palace walls as soldiers shed literal blood on the battlefield.īut most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlots curse Instead of being kind, and compassionate towards the poor, the corrupt church exploits them.Īnd the hapless Soldiers sigh Runs in blood down Palace wallsĬritique of the monarch and the meaningless wars that exploited soldiers. The church acting the exact opposite of how it should be. Children could get lost, suffocate and die. "chimney sweepers": small children, mostly poor and orphaned, were appointed to clean chimneys. How the Chimney-sweepers cry Every blackning Church appalls, On paper they are free, but in reality, they are not. People are not physically enslaved, but emotionally and mentally, they are. "mind forged manacles" means metaphorical shackles made by the mind. figurative meaning: societal restrictions. literal meaning: legal prohibition by the government, 2. "every ban" implies religious and political restrictions. In every voice: in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear In every cry of every Man, In every Infants cry of fear,Ĭapitalisation represents all of humanity. A reference to the industrial revolution, perhaps.Īnd mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe.Įvery single person that he meets or sees has been weakened by the stress of industrial life. "charter'd" has economic, commerce and trade-related implication. I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow. The outbreak of the French Revolution focused his attention on the appalling evils of contemporary English society, above all the horror and mystery and defilement of childhood in the London streets.
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too. It’s a specific style of writing primarily concerned with constructing the subject through a merging of the internal structures of Memory with an external, revivified Nature.
The poetry of this period is distinctive with the involvement of extensive pastoral imagery of the countryside, mountains, nature, etc. The Romantic Era opposed the scientific rationalisation of nature and legitimised individual imagination as a critical authority. Inspired by the French and American revolutions, Romanticism began as a revolt against the aristocratic social, political and economic norms of the Age of Enlightenment, and its obsession with Rationalism and Empiricism.
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