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| Posted on 2008-08-08 12:49:21 |
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| laaran |
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Let's take a famous poem.
Two small pieces.
(Lucretius, V, around 715)
Again, she [the moon] may revolve upon herself,
Like to a ball's sphere- if perchance that be-
One half of her dyed o'er with glowing light,
And by the revolution of that sphere
She may beget for us her varying shapes,
Until she turns that fiery part of her
Full to the sight and open eyes of men;
Thence by slow stages round and back she whirls,
Withdrawing thus the luminiferous part
Of her sphered mass and ball, as, verily,
The Babylonian doctrine of Chaldees
(Lucretius, V, around 760)
And still, if moon herself refulgent be
With her own sheen, why could she not at times
In some one quarter of the mighty world
Grow weak and weary, whilst she passeth through
Regions unfriendly to the beams her own?
Yes, the second part sounds really stupid.
And every body thinks : ah well done, in two pages, he destroys the respect for the theory of chaldeans.
Where is the dream, where is the poetry ? |
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