Analysis of The Metaphysical State of Modern Man



Faith, Hope, Peace and Love.
August doctrine of the metaphysician.
A Pauline healer of the human soul.
In quest of divine love and salvation.

To leave no human being behind.
As an island entire unto himself.
But to have us all as continental beings.
Not drifting away as fissured s(h)elves.

Yet ever shifting tectonically apart.
We are; relative to each other.
By language, class, race, color, creed.
With false expansion of our sense of being.

Contracting — rather than expanding.
Conversely so; and even more, inversely so.
Man remaining — an island unto himself.
O the irony of sophisticated modern man!


Scheme XAXA XBXX XXXC CXBA
Poetic Form Quatrain  (25%)
Metre 11101 1010101 0011010101 0110110010 111101001 11100101001 11111101010 11001110111 11010101 111001110 11011101 110101101110 100101010 100101010101 10101101001 1010010100101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 613
Words 119
Sentences 16
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 119
Words per stanza (avg) 25

About this poem

This four-stanza poem takes a satirical look at the metaphysical state of modern man.

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Written on October 31, 2023

Submitted by karlcfolkes on October 31, 2023

Modified by karlcfolkes on November 02, 2023

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Karl Constantine FOLKES

Retired educator of Jamaican ancestry with a lifelong interest in composing poetry dealing particularly with the metaphysics of self-reflection; completed a dissertation in Children’s Literature in 1991 at New York University entitled: An Analysis of Wilhelm Grimm’s “Dear Mili” Employing Von Franzian Methodological Processes of Analytical Psychology. The subject of the dissertation concerned the process of Individuation. more…

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