Analysis of The tragic theatre
Of all the artistic failures
that have nothing to do
with either law’s...
or the Muses...
pay attention to the main one...
Protect your heads
from Greece’s moan that was enclosed
inside your masks.
The role you undertook to play
does not strike anyone.
It itself is struck powerfully
by the irresistible aspiration of the Dialectic
to overwhelm the Human Being
with second opinions
in a second head
in order to interpret in keeping with its preferences
all that will take place in the space of the World.
Independently of what went on in your brains
which were subservient
just like the territory of the Empires
the protest of the soul
was not heard by anyone
because logic...
had been completely excluded.
I
t had been completely excluded...
and here its Greece’s fault as it ceded
to Dionysos...
extents of Earth and soul...
for his light-hearted and silly games
and the Heavenly places which had never been touched
by the hands of tragedy
were invited onto the stage
to play sub-songs for amusement.
On the stairs...
you’d think the conscience of the World was territorial
applause broke out
and the Nightmares who even the night considered too dangerous
to be included in its darkness
confirmed that they had earned the right
to walk unmolested with Happiness
in the flow of Days.
If at times you erred
and shifted the hero from mask to brain
because of this collective authenticity
you will sustain heavy artistic blows.
Ah, here yes...
you found Olympus on its own Time!
Precisely when they lighted a few
superstitious fires on it
and who knows what other long road
it will burden Greece with again!
And on the return... the tired field-marshals
when they find themselves at the Mercy of Seas
and no hand will be stretched out to them
from Olympus to pull them back to solid Earth
and they will curse the Tragedy as inhuman and evil.
Spontaneously then...
plunge to the lower feelings of Earth
which warned you that
soon they will be looking straight into Nightmares eyes.
Or so that we may be more like Humanists about the World
a kind of incomparable Fog
that will block visions this way and that
like a black sheet
for the mourning for Persephone.
That is why it’s also feared this make-believe Humanist
will take us by the throat
and dressed in white
will go into Athens
in order to hide the evil Hour
which roams the World like a paralytic
to acquire the right to be History.
That is why actors if you desire
that your temporary presence on Earth
is not the cause of misunderstanding
regarding Humanity’s being dressed
in the white garments of Humanism
it would be better if you had the conviction this World
has a skinny body... and its lines not suited
to that outfit
so that when the Future reveals
the failure of Philosophy
and the vanity of all things
perhaps the conscience of the World will also be upset
by the mistake that was shown to be so small
and enveloped its spacious heart
leaving Tragedy out.
And indeed now when Greek Horizons are clear
it is suspected that from the East
this same darkness and same cyclone
will rush in with mania slyly slipping past
the Symplegades
and will demolish the Visions of the World
with the eternal and heretical slogan:
Beware Bad Art and Athens.
Translation by PHILIP RAMP
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11001010 111011 1101 1010 10101011 0111 1111101 0111 0110111 11110 10111100 10010001010010 10101010 110010 00101 0101010010111000 11111001101 01001111011 100100 11010010100 01101 111110 0110 11010010 1 111010010 011111110 11 11101 111100101 0010010111011 1011100 00101001 11111010 101 1101010110100 0111 001110010101100 110100110 01111101 110101100 00111 11111 0100101111 01110100100 1101100101 111 110101111 010111001 0101011 01111011 11101101 01001010110 11101101011 011111111 101011111101 011101001010010 010001 110101011 1111 11111010111 111111111000101 011010001 111101101 1011 101011 11111011101100 111101 0101 110110 0101101010 110110010 10100111100 1111011010 111001011 110110010 0101101 001101100 11110111001011 101010011110 111 11101001 01010100 00100111 01010101110101 10011111111 00101101 101001 00111101011 110101101 11100101 110110010101 01 01010010101 100100010010 0111010 0101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 3,149 |
Words | 572 |
Sentences | 28 |
Stanzas | 18 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 3, 2, 7, 7, 10, 8, 4, 2, 4, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 15, 8, 1 |
Lines Amount | 97 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 144 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on October 29, 2014
Modified on March 14, 2023
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