[ SECRET POST #2595 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2595 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[kaijinscendre]

HOW DID YOU UNDERSTAND THAT? I read it and just get, "I think is about a rock that is in love. But then was betrayed by a demon."

[(Anonymous)]

Poetry is kind of a fashion of communicating -- some people need to be familiar with reading it in order to understand it, the way longtime speakers of a language can understand insinuations and idioms whereas recent learners of the language can't. *shrugs* It's just familiarity really, doesn't have much to do with intelligence or education.

[kaijinscendre]

It's witchcraft is what it is.

[(Anonymous)]

Don't hate on witchcraft. Witchcraft is awesome!

[dreemyweird]

IDK, it's just really obvious that the clod of clay and the pebble are allegoric portrayals of certain kinds of people (hell, they're talking about love. A clod of clay and a pebble) - despite his being a ~Romantic (sort of), Blake wrote what is considered pretty traditional poetry by modern standards. No absurdism, so no actual talking stones.

The rest is symbolism. The clod of clay being trodden with the cattle's feet is a selfless, altruistic person (who would rather suffer harm themselves than inflict it upon the other), and the pebble is a selfish, egotistic person (who would rather harm others than suffer themselves), because the clod is, well, trodden and allows the cattle to pass despite the fact that it gets squished in the process, while the pebble retains its shape but is a nuisance to the cattle.

[(Anonymous)]

Your explanation of the poem made me LOL.

But the others are right. Poetry is just a crossword puzzle, only with words. And like crosswords, solving them is a trick that is acquired with familiarity.

[(Anonymous)]

I like your interpretation better.

Somebody write some William Blake rock/demon fanfic!