Part 1
https://allenginsberg.org/2019/07/m-22/
Part 2
https://allenginsberg.org/2019/07/t-j-23-2/
Part 4
Then Oothoon waited silent all the day. and all the night,/But when the morn arose, her lamentation renewd,/The Daughters of Albion hear her woes, & eccho back her sighs.” – (The Daughters of Albion are all women on earth longing for freedom, or, all freedom on earth longing for recognition and liberation. In other words, you could have a great Women’s Lib group called “The Daughters of Albion”! – “The Daughters of Albion Fund-Raising Dance”!)
And now, finally, she gets to the heart of the matter. She pronounces the magical name of the great villain of all time – “O Urizen! Creator of men!” – (Actually she’s pointing out here that the form, the entire physical form of the universe that we’re stuck with is a by- product of, is a product of Urizen’s calculations, senses, solidifications, enclosures, rigidifications, stereotypes, limitations, boundings, definitions. So he’s even calling.. and it’s actually.. And you might (say)..” O Jehovah, Creator of men”. So he really has, from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, carried over that thought, that Jehovah is really the evil force, the limiting force. “O Urizen!” – and it’s Bromion addressed here, also. Bromion is sort of a representative of Urizen in this particular shot.
“… Creator of men! mistaken Demon of heaven” – (O Jehovah! (mistaken)… O God! mistaken Demon of heaven.. Jehovah!) – “mistaken Demon of heaven”. Imagine the nerve it would take to sum up that particular challenge to the entire moral universe of George III, of Louis XVI, of the London Times, of Bishop Wilberforce who was against slavery, of Edmund Burke, who was against any revolution at all. He’s actually calling down.. he’s like Samson, pulling down all the pillars of Western civilization, including the mind of the Industrial Revolution, including the ancient mind of the Ancient of Days, a creator of men. “O! Urizen.” And he’s doing it on behalf of women! On behalf of, like, Women’s Liberation, (which is a really, like, a historically beautiful moment, there). So he’s finally named it. He’s named the spectral power that has been controlling everybody for six thousand years (as he pointed out in “The French Revolution”) this was the end of six thousand years of Jehovaic tyranny.
“O Urizen! Creator of men! mistaken Demon of heaven:/Thy joys.. Thy joys are tears! thy labour vain, to form men to thine image.” – (which goes right back to (The Book of) Genesis, that God created man in his image) – “How can one joy absorb another? are not different joys/ Holy, eternal, infinite! and each joy is a Love./Doth not the great mouth laugh at a gift?..” – Who’s “the great mouth”? – It’s a really good line, but what is this “great (mouth)”? I would guess that this was… he’s talking about Jehovah, or the king, or the majesty, or the ruler, or the slave-owner – the “great mouth that laughs at a gift”. He’s pointing out the cruelty of Jehovah.
“…& the narrow eyelids mock/ At the labor that is above payment..” – (Her orgasm, actually. “(T)he labor that is above payment,” or the birth of a new joy, or the birth of a revolution, or the birth of Orc – revolution) – “…. and wilt thou take the rational imitator/ For thy councellor?” – (“The ape” – Remember the apes and the monkeys of the “Memorable Fancy” of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell ? , where the apes were the devourers of the prolific of the creation of the prolific?) – “… and wilt thou take the ape/For thy councellor? or the dog, for a schoolmaster to thy children?...