For visions
                                    are but dreams
                                 which we believe
                                    and make our truths.

                                 On mountains far
                                    we set our gaze
                                        and fantasize

                                  a kinder fate.
 
 
 

     This is a watercolor fantasy skyscape.  The sky is blue with scattered clouds.  Two fairies are flying through the page.  A mountain is seen on one cloud, a blue castle on another and another becomes a face.  The poem is written in the black, gothic script and appears on the lower half of
the page.
     This poem equates revelation with fantasy.  Idealism is a placebo to aid one in coping with an indifferent universe.  As such, it is a consolation, not a cure, nor an excuse for mortality.  In this piece, we see the influence of Stephen Crane, whom Tyldsley greatly admired.  Did Tyldsley share Cranes nihilistic tendancies or was he merely paying homage to them?
 

 
  
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