Your title and L12 allude to William Blake’s poem, “The Tyger.” Blake, in his Songs of Innocence and Experience, conveys his terror-tinged nostalgia for the quickly disappearing agrarian way of life (lamb) that he saw being devoured by the “dark, Satanic mills” of the Industrial Revolution (tiger). In line 13 you juxtapose this to a reference to Yeats’s “The Second Coming,” in which Yeats conveys a similar terror at the “rough beast” whose “gaze,” blank and pitiless, threatens violence in a succession of revolutions and world wars.
Your sonnet captures the same prophetic tone of danger and regret as the mechanical age gives way to the digital age of AI. Is the labyrinth image homage to Borges, or to the myth of The Minotaur?
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