{"id":5621,"date":"2021-11-21T17:02:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T17:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kennywilson.org\/?p=5513"},"modified":"2021-11-21T17:02:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T17:02:24","slug":"auguries-of-innocence-by-william-blake-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennywilson.space\/index.php\/2021\/11\/21\/auguries-of-innocence-by-william-blake-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Auguries of Innocence&#8221; by William Blake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kennywilsonmusic.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/11\/wb001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kennywilsonmusic.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/11\/wb001.jpg?w=744\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5521\" width=\"592\" height=\"814\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been really slow in posting this. It is my adaption of William Blake&#8217;s poem &#8220;Auguries of Innocence&#8221; and I did it more than six months ago. It is very long and I recorded it in my home studio and created a video. It took a very long time, but I think it was worth it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have always been impressed and inspired by the work of Blake. Two years ago I went to an excellent exhibition of his work in London. It showed it in the original context of the books he printed, and for the first time I really felt I understood what he was trying to say. Before then I was only guessing. Previously, the pictures tended to be isolated from the poems. I had his poetry in a book without illustrations, and I had seen the pictures in art books. The meanings totally change, and become clear,  when they are brought together and seen as a whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the poem that was the inspiration for Jim Morrison of the Doors and used in his song &#8220;End of the Night&#8221;. I have spoken most of it and sang the ending lines which are powerful and iconic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Every night and every morn, some to misery are born<\/p><p>Every morn and every night, some are born to sweet delight<\/p><p>Some are born to sweet delight, some are born to endless night<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Auguries of Innocence\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0zIpOdClp8s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Auguries of Innocence adapted and recorded by Kenny Wilson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been really slow in posting this. It is my adaption of William Blake&#8217;s poem &#8220;Auguries of Innocence&#8221; and I did it more than six months ago. It is very long and I recorded it in my home studio and created a video. It took a very long time, but I think it was worth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,35,43,47],"tags":[103,269,317,366],"class_list":["post-5621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio-video","category-music","category-poetry","category-religion","tag-art","tag-kenny-wilson","tag-music","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennywilson.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennywilson.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennywilson.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennywilson.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennywilson.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennywilson.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennywilson.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennywilson.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennywilson.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennywilson.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}