Analysis of The Thought That Lingers: Part Nine
This is the thought that lingers yet.
This is the ever burning thought.
Of man as Emperor of the World.
Surrendering his birthright heart of flesh.
For one whose luster is mere stone.
A wounded healer then is man.
O, what irony is man of steel!
With global urge to rule the world,
The universe he wounds instead.
With malicious weapons of deceit.
This is the flaw of modern man.
Of warlike man; focused, yet blind.
Possessed of gilded steely heart.
So crusted it no longer bleeds.
So withered it no longer feels.
From the Betwixt and the Between.
Within the crevices of his chthonic world.
Man searches aimlessly for his soul.
Alas! A heart that can no longer love.
Has forfeited the soul it once possessed.
Who then is modern man of war.
Disposed by outer nature as religious man.
Who struggles ever to be free.
Enchained by hatred and by greed.
Preaching a love that steals, not gives.
Who then is man in origin.
This godly man of righteousness.
Who is this noble Faustian man.
Who plunders wantonly; unrelentingly.
Who takes, without ever asking.
Man wages war with God… and Self.
This Übermensch —
In his descent becomes transformed.
Transmogrified from God to ‘Untermensch.’
Plutonic, warlike, igneous Untermensch.
Deception is the scheme of man.
Postmodernist Faustian Übermensch.
O Luciferan fallen Untermensch.
Your shadow casts upon this earth.
A light that’s full of darkness.
Your dwelling place then must be Erebus.
More specifically, the Underworld.
In which you build your throne.
Ascending from the bottomless pit.
To steal men’s hearts and souls.
“The seasons come; the seasons go.
Like sunrise and sunset the seasons flow.
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter glow.
Yet man does not desist to cause his woe.
Plundering the world — warfare in tow.”
While harvesting by theft the wealth of land.
Man becomes a brigand by his acts.
Seeking to be overseer, he becomes a clone.
The copy of himself is prized.
And not the flesh and blood of his original.
Man’s artifacts become his god.
His tools of trade, his arts and crafts.
His skills of technological wonder.
Become his graven images.
Transmogrified, man becomes bereft of soul.
How like a fallen god is man.
Once so mightily ascended.
Now so deeply descended.
How like a star gone dark is man.
A child of hope embraced by hopelessness.
This is indeed the thought that lingers yet.
This remains the overwhelming thought.
Of man as Emperor of the World.
Surrendering his birthright heart of flesh.
For one whose luster is mere stone.
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Poetic Form | Etheree (24%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11011101 11010101 111100101 010011111 11110111 01010111 111001111 11011101 0101101 101010101 11011101 1111011 01110101 11011101 11011101 10010001 0101001111 110100111 0101111101 1100011101 11110111 011101010101 11010111 1110011 10011111 11110100 11011100 11110101 111001 11011010 11011101 11 01010101 11111 01011001 01010111 1101 11101 1110111 0111110 11011111 10100010 011111 010101001 111101 01010101 11010101 11010101 1111011111 10001101 1100110111 10101111 1011101010101 01010111 010101110100 1100111 11111101 111010010 01110100 11010111 11010111 11100010 1110010 11011111 0111011100 1101011101 10100101 111100101 010011111 11110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 2,529 |
Words | 507 |
Sentences | 69 |
Stanzas | 14 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 70 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
About this poem
This 14-stanza poem, “The Thought That Lingers: Part Nine,” is Part Nine of a collection of twelve poems that are laden with interconnecting ideas, and with the interweaving central theme of “The Thought That Lingers” (hence the title of the entire series of the twelve poems), forming altogether an anthology of metaphysical, philosophical, existential poetry that was composed in the year 2000 and now published on poetry.com.
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