The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake | Structure, Summary, Analysis
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is one of the Prophetic works by William Blake in which he imitated the Biblical prophecy while expressing his own mythical elements and intensely personal Romantic and revolutionary ideas. Blake experimented with relief etching for this book. It is an illuminated prose poem, the text, decoration, and drawings of which were etched by Blake on copper plates. His wife Catherine helped in coloring and printing the etched plates on paper. The short book in verse was published in 1789. The book is divided into ten sections that can be considered as chapters:
1) "The Argument" 2)“The Voice of the Devil" 3)"A Memorable Fancy" (1)
4) “Proverbs of Hell" 5)"A Memorable Fancy" (2) 6)"A Memorable Fancy" (3)
7) "A Memorable Fancy" (4) 8) "A Memorable Fancy" (5) 9) "A Song of Liberty"
10) "Chorus"
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is an Illuminated Prose Poem with many illustrations and proverbs written in Free Verse style with no patterned rhythm.
The main idea of the book is to blur the lines of difference between heaven and hell, good and evil, and presenting them as contraries necessary for each other. On Plate 1, Blake etched the Book Cover which depicts the earth with heaven above it and hell below the earth. Two naked figures embrace in flame while human spirits are depicted moving upwards in the sky.
William Blake used Symbolism to present his ideas in this book. The flames of hell, traditionally used to symbolize evil and eternal suffering, seem to give rise to trees and living human beings. At the same time, angels, who typically symbolize the divine and are god's messengers or helpers for humanity, are depicted as closed-minded, insolent, and inactive. Blake also used Animal symbolism throughout the book. One of the most notable is in the Proverbs of Hell where he mentioned The "tigers of wrath" and the "horses of instruction." The raw energy of the tiger is opposed to the relentless forward-plodding of the horse. The proverbs state that the tiger is the wiser of the two. Blake used metaphor to compare angels with horses of instruction and devils as tygers of wrath, suggesting that Evil is creative energy while good is passive reason and obedience.
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