Blake [England]

To see a world in a grain of sand,

A paradise in a wild flower,

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,

Eternity is collected in an instant.

(Liang Yi, selected from Liang Yi's poems)

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Although the Naive Prophet has only four short lines, it fully embodies the poet Blake's poetics and art. "To see a world in a grain of sand/to see a heaven in a wild flower" means to grow from small to large, and to integrate the differences between small and big. "Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,/and eternity in an instant", from big to small, still melts the difference in size. The short four-line poem melts the difference between sand and the world, wild flowers and heaven, infinity and finiteness, eternity and instant into invisibility, so the world is unified, human nature is harmonious and a paradise on earth is established. This is the instant feeling of the poet's inspiration, and it is a unique understanding that transcends perceptual experience and rational world. At this moment, life broke free from all the shackles of metaphysics and metaphysics, and became the freest existence integrated with the universe.

This little poem is full of time wisdom, even reaching the instantaneous "eternal" emptiness, similar to eastern mysticism. Western academic circles believe that Blake saw the future with the illusion of a prophet and the human condition in modern society. This poem breaks the strict division of time and space between rationalists and mechanists with the mysterious experience of illusion, and strives to realize the ontological restoration of man and the world, which shows his avoidance and resistance to the alienated reality of modern society from one side.

(Nie Xiongqian)