*
Not warlike…
Blood-Spilled!
Not romantic…
Heart-Thrilled!
Not adventurous…
Action-Filled!
*
Instead,
our muse intends
to trill
it’s heaven-sent verse
‘gainst this…
*
…Our players willed
to shape
the Faustian Fall
for well or ill.
*
We’ll for him plead
a base-born life to lead…
Uphill!
So shortly sped
and earned
divinities title
of Theology, a doctor,
learned!
*
Up and up…
he kept on rising,
’til waxen-wings
stopped him flying!
*
But first,
before that flight,
is he within an earth-bound
state, and study found…
*
There to slake his lack
with subtle sorceries, black!
The Arts of Dark pursuing
all thought for the Soul’s chief bliss,
denying…
*
The Silent Eye 
I’m torn, is this a tale of Faustus or Icarus? I need to nail my anti-hero down, lest he fly too near the sun or fall too far from grace.
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So far as I am aware Icarus was no ‘Doktor’… 😉
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Thanks, that helps. But I did consider that it was an amalgam of literary figures who overreach and fall from grace. Hence my dilemma in identification.
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Here the chorus, which has a narrative function in the play, is drawing an analogy with, or making an allusion to, a mythological figure in order to seed and guide audience expectations… 😉
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If I had read the play, that might have helped. But most likely, it is my superficial understanding of both stories that led to my particular failure. Either way, the poem makes one think, which is always a good thing.
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The play is well worth a read… 😉
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