Observation

[rejectomorph]

As I was retrieving Mom's dinner dishes, she was watching a rerun of M*A*S*H, and the theme song was playing. I suddenly realized that the first quatrain of the song has the same rhythms as William Blake's The Tiger, so you can sing:

Tiger! Tiger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

It also works for A Poison Tree:

I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.

It also works fairly well for Blake's London:

I wander thro' each chartered street,
Near where the chartered Thames does flow,
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.

I guess this means that if William Blake had been born in our time, he could have written songs for movies and television.

Pointless, but interesting.

Comments

[kenhighcountry.livejournal.com]

It's actually a little known fact that Blake wrote the original lyrics to the Theme From M*A*S*H*. They were discovered in an old cuhrch basement in 1964 by Robert Altman's nephew, who was researching his doctoral dissertation on Blake's lesser known poems and song lyrics. Turns out that Blake also wrote Hound Dog. You could look it up.
A brave man once requested me
to answer questions that are key
is it to be or not to be
and I replied "oh why ask me?"

[rejectomorph]

I'm not surprised about Hound Dog. After all, wasn't Colonel Parker Blake's agent, too?