Analysis of The Hidden Treasure
Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)
Behold the parable of life:
Vanity, vanity, vanity!
All of life is but a dream:
A dream of hidden treasures.
And the dream, alas, must die…
As all dreams surely die…
At the rising of the Sun…
At the rising of the Self…
The hidden Self within.
Store therefore your treasure…
Your hidden treasure in heaven…
Your treasure buried within.
| Scheme | XXXXAA BXCXBC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01010011 100100100 1111101 0111010 0010111 111101 1010101 1010101 010101 11110 11010010 1101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 347 |
| Words | 66 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
About this poem
This poem deals with the eternal search of humanity to find and experience one’s hidden potentialities hidden within the psyche. It is, as Swiss psychiatrist Car Jung suggests, the eternal quest to become individuated; or, in the language of theology, to become a “new man.”
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Written on September 15, 2021
Submitted by karlcfolkes on September 15, 2021
Modified by karlcfolkes on November 07, 2022
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