The Myth of the Fire-Bringer and the Evolution of Sight
There's a good long poem on the Prometheus by Samuel Porter Putnam you may like!
Thanks — this one was totally unknown to me. I know the well-known Prometheus poems: Aeschylus, Byron, Goethe, Shelley.
Aeschylus is of course the best, but Putnam's is very good though takes a lot of liberties to reflect the 1800s proto-atheist views on the myth.
Only at times, the curtain of the pupils
lifts, quietly—. An image enters in,
rushes down through the tensed, arrested muscles,
plunges into the heart and is gone.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Prometheus is an agent of evolution, but wants to pick the winners, which he can't. And so he grieves. Always the same with new things.
I’m used to the myth with humanist or romantic inflections — Prometheus gives fire/knowledge out of pity or sympathy for humankind.
There's a good long poem on the Prometheus by Samuel Porter Putnam you may like!
Thanks — this one was totally unknown to me. I know the well-known Prometheus poems: Aeschylus, Byron, Goethe, Shelley.
Aeschylus is of course the best, but Putnam's is very good though takes a lot of liberties to reflect the 1800s proto-atheist views on the myth.
Only at times, the curtain of the pupils
lifts, quietly—. An image enters in,
rushes down through the tensed, arrested muscles,
plunges into the heart and is gone.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Prometheus is an agent of evolution, but wants to pick the winners, which he can't. And so he grieves. Always the same with new things.
I’m used to the myth with humanist or romantic inflections — Prometheus gives fire/knowledge out of pity or sympathy for humankind.