Analysis of Voyage of jesus christ
Of all the dreams on the background of which
calamity and fatalism have reigned
I still am unable to forget that one
with which I began my Tour of the World
at the geographical point where Love was born
and broke off at the point
where humans came to hate one another.
In a completely natural way
I began to hunt down Hate
but after a while this comfort turned into confusion
since I had just read
the "Dialectic of Moses”
and I had to appease my own spectres
regarding the anxiety which had then gripped Moses
as to the essence of History
which if you judge by the winds
as they caress the windows of Jerusalem
doesn`t seem to be tragic at all.
But it seems to me that Moses
as the wind scattered his thoughts through the Desert
may have acted in haste.
The windows of Jerusalem
have looked out on Idols alone.
Those which did not pose any threat to the City
but just as they were not dangerous
they were also uncorrectable
and thus could disturb the conscience of Citizens
regarding the morals of Heroes
which on the heels of the enslavement of human souls
began to spread the cloud of doubt
so in the end not one person was liberated.
And so great was the misunderstanding
of this People that it nearly became a bosom friend of God
until the autumnal nakedness of Mt. Sinai
was decked out in the crusade of this entire People
which went to be punished converting into dust
the Happiness which Fate had ordained for it.
All the wilderness left behind was enough
to confirm what had once
been but a spectre...
As soon as it was delivered from the intoxication
of the divine temperament
the visionaries of the Dialectic
which was baptized by the hot Wind and the Soul
saw that Heaven was nowhere to be found.
Around them could be seen only milling Humans...
not to say Rome...
power...
cold logic.
But that was enough for us to pull away
from you and Earth.
In another world by now
I had absolutely no chance of determining
whether Jerusalem had moved to Hell or
to Paradise
just as Jerusalem had no way of knowing
that with Hate stretching before me
my eye would be drawn to Heaven
just as my body to Earth
and would continue to be beset by visions
to bring before the empty eyes of this World
the unfortunate past of White Idealism.
That is why hope is not to be found
as everything has become terribly blurred
and I`m afraid the most dreadful thing of all will soon rule.
Holy Scripture has begun to stagger about the Earth
refusing to stride in step with the worldly walk
going back to the time the Steps of this World
first became imperial
and night was getting ready to fall on that World
so that all of these games of absolutely no seriousness
all of these doubts and conjectures
would be arranged like Black Legends
on the banks of the Jordan river.
Thus the following day
only one thing would come true
from the Dream I saw.
Its flow cannot be contained
in mere undulation without mysteries
signs and shadows of the life beyond.
And that has dispassionate aims...specific...
so the only thing that can be faced in this World
will be the Punished People
which as I meant to tell you above
will pervade History
having before it the Desert
there in its eternal place
seeking explanations for the return of Idealism
from the Jordan river...
and if I`m not mistaken
not even that one has the right to return
quite the same as all other beings
who do not belong to any God.
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Metre | 110110111 0100010011 11101010111 1110111101 10010011111 011101 1101111010 000101001 1011111 11001110101010 11111 0010110 011101111 01000100111110 110101100 1111101 110101010100 11111011 11111110 10110111010 111001 01010100 11111001 111111011010 111101100 10101 011010101100 010010110 1101100101101 01110111 100111101100 011100010 1110111001010111 0100101111 11100011101010 111110010011 01001110111 10100101101 101111 11010 11111010100010 1001100 0100010010 11011011001 111011111 011111101010 1111 10 110 11101111101 1101 0010111 110101110100 10010011111 110 110100111110 11110011 11111110 1111011 010101101110 11010101111 001001110100 111111111 1101011001 01010110111111 10101011100101 010110110101 10110101111 1010100 011101011111 111111101011000 11110010 11011110 101101010 101001 1011111 10111 1110101 01101100 10110101 01101001 101011111011 1101010 111111101 101100 10011010 1010101 10010100110100 101010 0111010 11011101101 101111010 111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 3,378 |
Words | 628 |
Sentences | 23 |
Stanzas | 16 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 11, 3, 2, 8, 6, 3, 5, 4, 2, 11, 3, 9, 3, 3, 13 |
Lines Amount | 93 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 169 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on August 21, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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