Tuesday, April 26, 2016

human scale II

'though Sophocles saw Fates in everything
Euripides lays all of it on Man

the meanest servant and the proudest king

must lay and execute his own life-plan

a subtle midrash on Homeric texts
dismissive of the creeds of ages past
inevitable as cause and effects
the tragedy's implicit in the cast
a humanist before we had the word

for whom the action all comes from within

unint'rested in what he deems absurd

to blame a deity for mortal's sin

a treasure from the Periclean age

laid bare the human psyche on the stage
   

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