THE CONCEPT OF BEULAH IN BLAKE’S MYTHIC COSMOLOGY AND THE IMPLICATION OF ITS PSYCHOLOGICAL TRUTHS ON THE POST-MODERN MIND: A PSYCHOANALYTICAL CASE STUDY
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The present research seeks to explore William Blake’s invented mythology in his poetry for the purpose of demystification of certain metaphorical concepts with special reference to Beulah, the land of the espoused, his cosmic machinery and settings, and the data has been collected through many print and online sources of repute, the search engines, and the blog archives. While his mythology is an important tool for creating his own system, by incorporating Biblical figures into his writing, Blake breaks from his mythology to communicate through universally understood characters, and this fact also led the researcher to conduct an in-depth study. By modernizing Biblical characters, Blake mythologizes these figures to the ones as existing outside the limits of historical time. As mythological entities, their symbolic value is more important than their specific actions as outlined in the Bible. Instead of exploring the whole mythical cosmology invented by Blake, the focus of the researcher has been strictly delimited to the concept of Beulah and its relevance to the post-modern man’s life and mind. The study of some of the significant works of Ginsberg and C.S.Lewis is selected in this regard. Another significant factor of the present research is the Psychoanalytical criticism which has been used in the interpretation of the personalized and internalized metaphors of Blake. The expected outcome of the present case-study is the demystification of Blake’s metaphors which make his ideas obscure, as well as to see how this affects to have a better reformation in the contemporary life of the post-modern man.
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