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- Title
Blake's Sexual Furrows and Milton's ‘Labour'd Ox’.
- Authors
Miner, Paul
- Abstract
The article analyzes the English poet William Blake's expansion on language and images used by the English poet John Milton regarding the topics of sexuality and oppression. According to the author, Blake's discussion of chastity and the appearance of a castrated ox in the poem "Visions of the Daughters of Albion" came as influence from Milton's poem "Comus." Other works by Blake, including "America, A Prophecy" and "The Four Zoas," are used by the author to analyze Blake's metaphors of furrows to discuss of flagellation, government oppression, and sexual desires.
- Subjects
LITERARY criticism; POETRY (Literary form); BLAKE, William, 1757-1827; VISIONS of the Daughters of Albion (Poem : Blake); MILTON, John, 1608-1674; COMUS (Poem : Milton); FLAGELLATION; OPPRESSION in literature; HUMAN sexuality in literature
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 2011, Vol 58, Issue 4, p511
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Poetry Review
- DOI
10.1093/notesj/gjr177