The Poems of William Blake

In the poem, To the Evening Star, the poet is inspired by the presence of the evening star. Do you agree?

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I thgink it is safe to say that the speaker is inspired by the evening star. The speaker knows that it is during night, when Venus’s “radiant crown” holds the power to put an end to all of daytime’s rules (change the color of the sky, put the flowers to sleep, calm the wind). Alas, the excitement and bliss of the unencumbered will “soon withdraw,” and just as in man’s law-abiding society, the force of opposition governs all of Blake’s inhibitions.