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This unique poem is commonly read as a declaration that the personified Earth will no longer remain silent in the face of suffering and injustice. It features the Earth as the central persona or speaker in the piece and can be found at the beginning of Blake’s “ Songs of Experience” collection.
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Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim. Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up. Thine individual being, shalt thou go. To mix for ever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock. And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain.
Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world—with kings, The powerful of the earth—the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
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William Cullen Bryant Thanatopsis translates roughly to “viewing death,” thanatos meaning death and opsis meaning sight. For the sake of this poem, the meaning of the word is closer to…
Ah! never shall the land forget How gushed the life-blood of her brave— Gushed, warm with hope and courage yet, Upon the soil they fought to save. Now, all is calm, and fresh, and still, Alone the chirp of flitting bird, And talk of children on the hill, And bell of wandering kine are heard.
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Earth's Answer. By William Blake. Earth rais'd up her head, From the darkness dread & drear. Her light fled: Stony dread! And her locks cover'd with grey despair. Prison'd on watry shore. Starry Jealousy does keep my den.
