Today's poem
The poem 'Joy' as the book title begins and ends with darkness. Here, the darkness has a deep implication. Catherine Blake's voice is told as in a monologue of drama. First, curtain raiser, lines are filled with an elegiac tone of the widow Catherine. Then, she tells a recollection on her husband William Blake as adopting acts and scenes. Through the conversation with him as a phantom, finally, there is a joy of living with him: love. With Catherine's crisp lines like spoken words, it seems to me to watch a play of one dream of Catherine and William at a theater. Glad to hear her shadowy or invisible life in the book.
The poem 'Joy' as the book title begins and ends with darkness. Here, the darkness has a deep implication. Catherine Blake's voice is told as in a monologue of drama. First, curtain raiser, lines are filled with an elegiac tone of the widow Catherine. Then, she tells a recollection on her husband William Blake as adopting acts and scenes. Through the conversation with him as a phantom, finally, there is a joy of living with him: love. With Catherine's crisp lines like spoken words, it seems to me to watch a play of one dream of Catherine and William at a theater. Glad to hear her shadowy or invisible life in the book.
(I purchased, read ebook, though the website below does not show the whole poem 'joy'. )
Joy by Sasha Dugdale