Analysis of The beggar
Yesterday a painter approached me
and suggested I hold my outstretched arms
as still as I could.
It`s said that through such standard positioning
humanity becomes closer
in a quite marvelous manner
and those passing by come into contact
with my outstretched arms
which is a serious reason for the agitation
of people
so when they die they will suggest to the rest of the dead
that they beg fearlessly for a dime`s worth of resurrection
from paradise...
because the bodies that do not provoke any feeling
have moved into the living world.
This proposal will provoke irritation
among the governors of hell.
But immediately afterward the Fine Arts will intervene
with their romantic paintings
of Unforgettable Sunsets
where the fire of the Soul is united with the fire of the Sun
and who knows how many other idiocies will be born
in the light-hearted visions of the Romantics.
This is enough to soothe strained nerves
and Hell and Paradise
those bitter and uncompromising foes
psychological and philosophical enemies
will now enjoy give and take between themselves.
E.g.: Someone from the hopeless depths
weighted down with the hump of sins
will denounce Paradise to the World.
Because ever since he accepted as his backdrop
these weary aspects
he has himself committed sins
but despite these will not accept the slightest threat
of dethronement...
And worst of all: the only revolutionary voice
for Truth and Justice
will be abolished by Paradise
swathing it with the silk
of money...
of Beautiful Women...
and the Virtuous Citizen.
Yes, yes, such sordidness will occur
where having enjoyed
all the goods of the world
an agreement is reached
whereby long-term animosities
must one day come to an end.
So when you get down to it
whatever way things might be
they will live.
Only I...
non-existent in the eyes of the World
will never dream of height
so I might ascend to where only the mountains are visible.
On those nightmarish...
and pitiless heights
global interest has now been focused
in order to explain the poetics
of the quarrel of the Sun with Hard Matter
regarding the ambition of phantoms
to acquire the Classical Pose of Mountains.
But if that is possible
I would then say that I am the highest phantom
who would be able to win without a battle
and without cosmogonic confutations
the eternal placement of those mountains.
Without the slightest chance however of delighting in
the joys and torments of immortality
because there would then pass before me
that bad old world once again
that would remain just as indifferent
as now when I am
(even though it isn`t worth the effort)
alive.
And indeed then when my presence
would have been transformed into eternal air
that the world itself would breathe
not having a worthy Temple
wherein to confess its sins
and something more -- the World would even be
indifferent to its very self.
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 2,840 |
Words | 486 |
Sentences | 22 |
Stanzas | 14 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 12, 2, 6, 5, 8, 7, 6, 3, 4, 7, 5, 8, 7 |
Lines Amount | 83 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 165 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on August 20, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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