Orpheus: A Poetic DramaSteinerBooks, 1983 - 143 pagina's |
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Act IV Scene animals Apollo Arethusa Aristaeus Ascalaphus offstage Barfield's bees C. S. Lewis cease Cerberus chain Charon Chorus for Nereus Curtain dance daughter death deep rises Demeter Dionysus earth Elysium Evoe evolution of consciousness experience eyes father Fifth Maenad flesh Fourth Maenad goddess gods Hades hear heart Hell Heracles human Iacchus ideas imagination imitating Eurydice kiss Lady light Lindisfarne Lindisfarne Association lips Listen look meaning metaphor Mnemosyne Mother Cyrene Muse myth nature Nereid nymph Oceanus once original participation Owen Barfield Peneus Persephone phenomena play Poetic Diction polarity Procne Proteus Queen recreate round sacrifice Satyr Saving the Appearances Second Chorus Second Danaïd Second Maenad seeks serpent singing Sisyphus sleep song soul speak swarm sweet symbol Tantalus Tereus thee themes thing thinking Third Danaïd Third Maenad thou tion underworld upper air Voice of Eurydice Voice of Hades Voice of Orpheus Wake words Zeus
Populaire passages
Pagina 7 - I had casually mentioned to my friend CS Lewis that I seemed to be feeling an impulse to write a play in verse and was wondering about a subject, and at the same time that I wanted to keep clear of the sort of ulterior motives I have just referred to.
Pagina 10 - I wonder whether the play, taken as a whole, may not be hinting at a transition from, or rather through, Eros to Agape, neither as a Platonic transfer of attention from carnal copy to ghostly original, nor simply as darkness giving' way to light, but rather as moonlight brightening imperceptibly into sunshine.