[spoilers] Lucas. Just Lucas.

[Belle]

(19-11-2010 03:37 PM)A Cousin Wrote:  The are others who know much more than I do re: how Wm Blake relates to Lucas but I do know that the tatoo on Lucas' chest titled The Ancient of Days AKA God as the Architect. I think the significance of Blake's poems is as simple as his most famous poetry: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. Don't think I have to spell either out more than that.

This is the last poem in Songs of Experience:

THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD

Youth of delight! come hither
And see the opening morn,
Image of Truth new-born.
Doubt is fled, and clouds of reason,
Dark disputes and artful teazing.
Folly is an endless maze;
Tangled roots perplex her ways;
How many have fallen there!
They stumble all night over bones of the dead;
And feel--they know not what but care;
And wish to lead others, when they should be led.

I quite liked that aspect of it all.

Waw, that's a beautiful poem!
And, as you say A Cousin, there are others who can ellaberate more than we about the relation between Blake and Lucas' state of mind, but it's really not hard to recognise the turmoil and lonleyness that he must have felt (and wish to lead others, when they should be led).
Thanks for sharing this with us!