Tiriel by William Blake

An embittered, blind former monarch, stripped of power by his children, wanders through a ruined, dreamlike landscape railing against betrayal and injustice; as he confronts family members, aged parents, and symbolic figures of reason and desire, his proclamations of judgment reveal both monstrous tyranny and profound vulnerability, and the tale becomes a dark, allegorical meditation on authority, filial ingratitude, the collapse of rationalism, and the necessity of imaginative renewal.