"[W]ho can tell / How each [image] awaken'd from its little cell / Starts forth, and how the soul's command it hears / And soon on fancy's theatre appears?"

— Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

Author

Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729)

Work Title

Redemption: A Divine Poem, in Six Books

Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for A. Bettesworth and James MackEuen
Date
1722
Metaphor
"[W]ho can tell / How each [image] awaken'd from its little cell / Starts forth, and how the soul's command it hears / And soon on fancy's theatre appears?"
Metaphor in Context
Say by what ties an incorporeal Mind
Is with a body vitally combin'd?
How to the soul are outward objects brought?
How is perception by their impulse wrought?
What is idea, phantasme, what is thought?
What curious artist can dissect the brain,
And shew in memory's stores the sleeping train
Of hoarded images? and who can tell
How each awaken'd from its little cell
Starts forth, and how the soul's command it hears
And soon on fancy's theatre appears?
Categories
Architecture::Cell Architecture::Theater Population::Actors
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry); Found again "soul" and "theat"
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1722).

See Richard Blackmore, Redemption: A Divine Poem, in Six Books (London: A. Bettesworth and James MackEuen, 1722). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
08/16/2005
Date of Review
05/16/2012

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.