C-
0d


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'And now "They are
her feet I the shadows
 E of Tharmas
 I Enion"
.children
n doorway 3. hints of
 I family
2. embrace romance
 .es ---- -q -

 Vala con- I
 Sversation I

 I1. Enion
 evades
 Tharmas'
 S eyes

 E "And in the
 S- morning"






 I




 I

 THARMAS/ENION


"And the
sleepers
. .beheld
these
visions...
thus were
the
sleepers
enter -
taind"


LUVAH /VALA


 FEAST


"The
morning
dawnd
Urizen
rose ,.
stars
threshd
from
their
husks"


URIZEN


"sweet Science
reigns"

6. poem closes
undialectically

5. beasts of prey
question their
condition;

4. three parallel
phases that
attempt to
resolve narrative
tensions on-the-
page;

3, crushing
wheels; *

2, Tharmas
active in driving
wheels (like his
role of hidden
trumpeter in
Los phase I);

I, names
"Urthona" and
"Dark Urthona"
alternate:
ovens and mills
(no blacksmith-
ing);

"Then Los who
is Urthona, "


 "Then Tharmas

 ETERNAL MAN



 LOS/URTHONA


 [Note: secondary meaning of "embrace" as euphemism for sexual intercourse]



Fig. D.3 Night the Ninth Symmetrical Nested Structures


I


"the dark myriads in
Shadows in the worlds
beneath"
7. Eternals call
morning into Beulah;
rise to labor at the
Vintage

6, Embrace of New
born Man and
Eternals

5. "Eternal" separates
from "Man"
Eternal's speech:

 worm/seed

4,"Many Eternal Men":
female separates,
3, Urizen takes harvest
into barns (132:2-9)
"The feast,,
was spread (132:10),
a." Enion's apocalyptic
 speech; predicts
 embrace

b. Tharmas/ Enion
embrace:
c. trumpet sounding
"The feast was spread"
(133:2)
2,groans rise; the
Eternal Man darkens:
I. Urizen exults,* light is
poured; Spirits of Luvah
and Vala are exhaled;
"When Luvah 8 Vala
were closed up"


"Elements subside
the heavens rolled
on with vocal
harmony"
8. Eternal Man
costs out Luvah and
Valo; Human Wine
transformed
7, The Eternal Man
darkens: Tharmos
and Urthona arise
from the feast in
joy (as if ignorant);

6, Legions of
Mystery fall into
the Wine Presses
of Luvah *
5. Luvah assumes
control over
Vintage

 IMan is a Worm '
 speech _j

 4. Eternal Man's *
 speech to the I
 Sons of Urizen
 and Luvah

 3.Block's song
 rises to the
 feast;
 2. African black's
 song "MethinksT
 I ... tents,
 Lflocks, herds,

 I, Thermos' speech:

 Go down.,.
 Mystery is no
 more