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A FEMALE DREAM
Senior BFA Show
'A Female Dream' was inspired by William Blake's 'Europe a Prophecy'. The main character in this poem is a woman called Enitharmon. I wanted to understand what a female dream is and why it seemed that for a woman to experience joy, it must mean that others suffer.
WILLIAM BLAKE
`Now comes the night of Enitharmon's joy!
Who shall I call? Who shall I send,
That Woman, lovely Woman, may have dominion?
Arise, O Rintrah! thee I call, and Palamabron, thee!
Go! tell the Human race that Woman's love is Sin;
That an Eternal life awaits the worms of sixty winters,
In an allegorical abode, where existence hath never come.
Forbid all Joy; and, from her childhood, shall the little Female
Spread nets in every secret path.
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