Oothoon's mind vs. Theotormon's mind in "Visions of the Daughters of Albion"

"They told me that the night & day were all that I could see;

They told me that I had five senses to inclose me up.

And they inclos'd my infinite brain into a narrow circle."

The above lines (31-33, plate 2) of Blake’s “Visions of the Daughters of Albion,” spoken by the forlorn Oothoon, showcase the difference between Oothoon’s mind and Theotormon’s, the man Oothoon loved and who was devastated to learn that she had been raped. Oothoon has called upon an eagle to rip out the soiled part of her body, thinking that this will make her acceptable to Theotormon again. In earlier lines, she compares her two situations (being soiled and being pure) to night and day. Here, I think she is showing us that she believes she is pure because she can only see night and day, black and white, pure and soiled. In contrast, Theotormon seems to be senseless because he can neither see her nor hear her talking to him. Without his senses, he is lost in the infinite world of his own mind where he cannot see the light of day and where his thoughts take him places he really doesn’t want to be.

Oothoon seems to know that Theotormon will never be able to accept her after her violation because, in lines 2-5 of plate 3, she ponders over how different animals have the same senses, yet are able to do so many diverse things. I think you could say that she believes animals do diverse things with the same senses because they are born in different forms. I believe that here Oothoon shows that her fate, the inclosing of her "infinite brain into a narrow circle," similar to the animals’ which are determined by their outer forms, is determined by her inner experience of having been raped and not by the outward purity that she has attained at the eagle’s claws.