...the poem, some good thoughts about these are expressed. In the fifth Night Young says of darkness: Darkness has more divinity for me: It strikes thought...the soul To settle on herself, our point supreme! This sacred shade and solitude, — what is it? 'Tis the felt presence of the Deity. Night is fair...

...the poem, some good thoughts about these are expressed. In the fifth Night Young says of darkness: Darkness has more divinity for me: It strikes thought...the soul To settle on herself, our point supreme! This sacred shade and solitude, — what is it? 'Tis the felt presence of the Deity. Night is fair...

...Thought wanders up and down, surpris'd, aghast, And wondering at her own: How Reason reels! [Night I] Darkness has more divinity for me; It strikes thought...supreme! There lies our theatre! there sits our judge. [Night V]" For the self-conscious imagination, there is nothing more "dark, uncertain, confused, terrible,"23...

...les ténèbres permettent la perception de l'âme intérieure, et c'est ce qui en fait le prix : « Darkness has more Divinity for me ;/ It strikes thought...drives back the soul/ To settle on herself, our point supreme!»25 Night Thoughts, comme d'autres poèmes de cette veine, critique l'ignorance et la superstition...

...in the personal quality of his melancholy. Deeply significant in his love of night is the fact that "It strikes thought inward; it drives back the soul To settle on herself, our point supreme." *° " On Wordsworth's Poetry. " Eliot, op. ait., p. 48. "Night Thoughts, VU, 148. "Ibid., vil, 143....

...golden worlds inlaid ! Built with Divine ambition! nought to thee; For others this profusion. YOUNG. DARKNESS the curtain drops o'er life's dull scene : ,Tis the kind hand of Providence stretched out *. 'Twixt man and vanity; 'tis reason's reign, And virtue's too. YOUNG. NIGHT is the...