Mad Song
Mad Song - fact Summary
First Printed in Poetical Sketches
"Mad Song" appears in Blake's early collection Poetical Sketches. The poem dramatizes a speaker driven toward night and madness, using stormy natural imagery and shifting moods to present insomnia, grief, and a craving for darkness. Its repetitive, incantatory lines create a claustrophobic sense of mental collapse while linking inner disturbance to external tempestuous weather, characteristic of Blake's early experiments with dramatic voice and moral intensity.
Read Complete AnalysesThe wild winds weep And the night is a-cold; Come hither, Sleep, And my griefs infold: But lo! the morning peeps Over the eastern steeps, And the rustling birds of dawn The earth do scorn. Lo! to the vault Of paved heaven, With sorrow fraught My notes are driven: They strike the ear of night, Make weep the eyes of day; They make mad the roaring winds, And with tempests play. Like a fiend in a cloud, With howling woe, After night I do crowd, And with night will go; I turn my back to the east, From whence comforts have increas'd; For light doth seize my brain With frantic pain.
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