One is ever mindful when examining the music of Bach, with its perfection of workmanship, its numerous symbolisms — alphabetical, numerological, cruciform — that this was a man who lived on multiple planes, an
1. The most important point here is to keep in mind the organic unity of the Old Testament. Its predictions are not isolated, but features of one grand prophetic picture; its ritual and institutions parts of one great system; its history, not loosely connected events, but an organic developm...
Here are two major symbolisms: The tiger is the embodiment of Gods power in creation. The tiger shows the force of French Revolution. What paradox can you find in the poem? Did he who made the Lamb make thee? It challenges the one-track religious views of the 18’s century. The view...