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WILLIAM BLAKE: GOLDEN STRING Blake seeks to provide the Golden String which can lead us through the labyrinth of our experience or his own poetry. Tuesday, August 21, 2012 JESUS THE IMAGINATION From Kathleen Raine's book,  Golgonooza, City of Imagination,  we can learn more of what Blake meant by 'Jesus the Imagination' and about the function of states in the journey through mortal life. Page 154-6 "But for Blake Jesus is something more specific: he is 'Jesus, the Imagination, the 'supreme state' of humanity which transcends, and releases from, all the states of good and evil through which human souls pass. The presence of Jesus the Imagination is with every man at all times present, born with every birth, accompanying every soul throughout life as the 'saviour' who releases the man from his present state. It is Satan, the Selfhood, who identifies the man with his present state; and who therefore is the Accuser who condemns; the Divine Humanity, Jes

Open main menu Search The Tyger Language Watch Edit "Tyger Tyger" redirects here. For other uses, see  Tiger Tiger (disambiguation) . This article  reads like a  review  rather than an encyclopedic description of the subject . " The Tyger " is a poem by the English poet  William Blake  published in 1794 as part of the  Songs of Experience  collection. Literary critic  Alfred Kazin  calls it "the most famous of his poems", [1]  and  The Cambridge Companion to William Blake  says it is "the most anthologized poem in English". [2]  It is one of Blake's most reinterpreted and arranged works. [3] The Tyger   by  William Blake Copy A of Blake's original printing of  The Tyger , 1794. Copy A is held by the  British Museum . Country UK Language English Publication date 1794 Background Edit Poem Edit Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies