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The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Summary
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake is a visionary work of poetic and philosophical paradox. Written in illuminated prose and bursting with provocative imagery, it challenges moral orthodoxy and religious dualism through the fusion of contraries—good and evil, reason and energy, heaven and hell—as necessary elements of spiritual life.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Excerpt
Short Summary: William Blake's masterwork blurs the boundaries of poetry, theology, and visual art. A poetic manifesto of liberation, it invites us to see contraries not as opposites, but as partners in divine creation.
"Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence."
In this dazzling text, Blake crafts Proverbs of Hell that exalt passion and imagination, journeys through surreal landscapes guided by infernal wisdom, and subverts the moral binaries of Enlightenment thought. Fire is not evil, but the form of divine energy. The devil is not villain, but visionary.
Through symbolic marriage, he unites heaven and hell, not in peace, but in fertile struggle—arguing that true divinity is not piety or submission, but freedom, desire, and imagination unbound.
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." In Blake’s world, salvation is found not by renouncing the world, but by experiencing it deeply and imaginatively. This is poetry as prophecy, illumination, and revolution.
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