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This 20 page paper is an explication of the first six nights of William Blake’s poem “The Four Zoas.” Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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The Four Zoas will be strongly reminded of Miltons Paradise Lost, with its tale of war between heaven and hell. A reader will also probably think of Shakespeare, but the
strongest resemblance seems to be to the Inferno by Dante Alighieri. In the Inferno, Dante is taken on a tour of the nine circles of Hell by the poet Virgil.
During the journey he sees various grotesque monsters, men suffering unspeakable tortures, until finally he is led to the lowest circle where Satan lies chained on a frozen lake. The
air is full of the howls and cries of the damned; the place reeks; and the images of horror and despair are haunting. Many of Blakes words call up the
same feelings, as when he describes the "doleful vales where no tree grew nor river flowd" (FZ6-74.33; E351) or the Urizen battled with "monsters of the Deeps in his most
hideous pilgrimage" (FZ6-74.9-10; E351). (These are the numbers given in the on-line, full-text version of the poem which is located at the University of Georgia.) In addition to these
works, Blakes poem and its classical allusions also reminds a reader of the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, and even the oldest epic of them all, the Sumerian Gilgamesh. Its
not that Blake copied anyone, but his poem tends to evoke some of the same feelings in a reader as these other works, possibly because they all tend to have
characters that are either much larger than life, or supernatural, or both; and because they deal with issues that go beyond individual concerns. But most of all, its a Christian
poem, a sort of retelling of the Book of Revelation in verse. But just what is Blake doing in his poem? Its no secret that the work is extremely difficult
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