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Analysis and comments on To Tirzah by William Blake

Comment 2 of 2, added on July 17th, 2006 at 2:09 AM.

Though Travis's biblical history is correct and William's wordery is very eliquent, I'd like to point out that perhaps there are anciant cities that are better knowen for there sins. I for one would prefer my name not to be used as a pretty way of saying sin.

Tirzah B from Canada
Comment 1 of 2, added on April 19th, 2006 at 3:28 PM.

Tirzah was a city in Biblical (Old Testament) times of wealth, pleasure, and (often) paganism-- much like the great cities of all major civilations become. Blake's "To Tirzah" comments on humanity's all-too-common frailty in falling into the sinfulness of Tirzah (worldliness)-- beginning with Eve (the mother of our "mortal parts"), and offers a hopeful message in the last 2 lines in stark contrast to the bleak truths the rest of the poem contains: that Christ's Resurrection has freed all humanity from Sin (Tirzah). Hence, "What have I to do with thee?"

Travis Searles from United States



Information about To Tirzah

Poet: William Blake
Poem: To Tirzah
Volume: Songs of Experience
Year: 1789
Added: Feb 20 2003
Viewed: 2981 times
Poem of the Day: Jul 31 2003


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