Page 10 - GALIET Memory and Poiesis: On Apollo's Wings IV

the real and nomos (convention) and phusis (nature). By this process, the grand theme of soul-making is experienced as a Hegelian progressive unfolding of truth, whose essence entails the ever-enduring historical Hegelian process of thesis overcoming antithesis to attain a synthesis, whose philosophic and aesthetic finalities, respectively, aim at Spirit-Mind and at Poetry, as truth and beauty. Yet, these poems also dwell on humanity’s perennial impermanence, its endless metamorphoses, and its powerlessness and feebleness against the laws of nature. Many other laudable themes equally co- exist: alienation, exile, homelessness, desolation, fragmentation (Titans), master-slave dynamics (Titans-Olympians), silence and frozenness (Saturn-Thea-Naiad), darkness (cave) and light (Hyperion), the individual and the communal and the conflict of identity coexisting in relation to representations of the feminine and masculine.
However, the most enchanting unified theme shows how both poems furiously tango with one another as if in Dionysian frenzy, twisting, turning, denuded and embraced, with the intent of outdoing the other, conquering, yes, with identical impetus as the Olympians enslave the Titans. Yet, to what ecstatic rhythm from their struggles and weeping tragedies shall they awaken and in which majestic temple or idyllic island, and to whose golden lyre and verb anew? To Poesy! In her
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