This chapter looks at the embodied experience of blindness as represented in the poetic work of little-studied Victorian writer Caroline Clive (‘V’). It reads Clive’s poetry as a response to the century’s medical anxiety over the remediless and irreparably disabled blind body. I argue that the poet’s exploration of bodily affect attempts to convey the somatic experience of going blind and bring structure into permanent darkness. Investigating the physiological dimension of cognition and human knowledge, Clive reveals the centrality of sight and light for embodied existence. In a meta-poetic commentary, she also explores the dilemma of poetic art: a form that relies on aesthetic vision becomes a textual mode of access to the dark realm of blind affect.