Darkness: dealing with reality Flashcards
First line
I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
Darkness is god
…Darkness had no need
Of aid from them—She was the Universe.
Nature dies with humanity: not infinite or seperate + crit
Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless—
A lump of death…
Ridenour:
There is no “Feeling of divine purpose being worked out, or of any power beyond the natural energies that are running down”
Nature that mirrors society
The bright sun was extinguish’d,…
icy
moonless air;
The mania around the prophecy
All earth was but one thought—and that was death
Harvest
the pang
Of famine fed upon all entrails—
About society crit, who?
Nicholson
“Darkness” is a metaphorical vision of society now.
Who says it is minging of dream and prophecy
Dingley: but fantasy, dream, and prophecy are interconnected.
London Chronicle what will happen
the London Chronicle: the increase of these spots=
removal of heat from the globe,
the extinction of nature,
and the end of the world
Not buried, sacrilegious
…men
Died, and their bones were tombless as their flesh;
goes against expecation
vipers crawl’d
And twin’d themselves among the multitude,
Hissing, but stingless—they were slain for food.
recalls bible imagery
And gnash’d their teeth and howl’d
Critics: Gospels, where those who are cast away from God are cast “into outer darkness, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth” (Matthew 8:11-12).
