1. Emma
Sir Gawain asks for King Arthur's permission to defend him by being put to the Green Knight's test when he says, " I am the weakest, well I know, and of wit feeblest, and the loss of my life would be least of any; that I have for you uncle is my only praise; my body, but for your blood, is barren of worth; and for his folly befits not a king, and "tis that I have asked it, it ought to be mine". ...
"Her own, that what she wills to do or say,/ Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best;/ All higher knowledge in her presence falls/ Degraded, Wisdom in discourse with her/ Looses discount'nancet , and like folly shewes;/ Authority and Reason on her wait,/ As one intended first, not after made" (p. 2089, ll. 549-55). ... "My author and disposer, what though bidd'st/ Unargues I obey; so God ordains, God is thy law, though mine: to know no more/ Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise" (p. 2016, ll. 635-39). ...
"I have sought for a joy without pain,/ For a solid without fluctuation..." (The Book of Urizen). How does Blake's poetry comment on Urizen's longings? The Urizenic ideology of immutability is what Blake seeks to subvert and destroy throughout his poetry. Urizen's longings epitomizes the tyr...