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What does it mean?
Imagery depicts a restless, burdened atmosphere with roaring forces and heavy clouds.
In plain terms
Roaring forces shake the air while heavy clouds hang low.
What can you take from it?
Tension can be felt in the atmosphere like a storm.

Where it applies

  • writing
  • mood setting
  • political unrest

Putting it to work

  • describe tension
  • set mood
  • observe atmosphere

Questions to consider

  • What does tension feel like?
  • What heavy forces do you see?

Another view

The meaning is vague without specific context on what the forces represent.

More from William Blake

  1. Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief?

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  2. Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

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  3. When the voices of children are heard on the green And laughing is heard on the hill, My heart is at rest within my breast And everything else is still.

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