Избранное. Поэзия. Драматургия

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Here, in this part of a poem, I’m bringing the drops of archi-Hellenic knowledge about that mystical ritual called the «envoking the shade». Homer, in his «Odyssey», explains it perfectly in the Songs 10—11. There, exactly, are the words about the giving blood to a shade; and that image, symbolically, I’ve used in my allegoric lines. (As we remember, Shelley himself, too, in his poems, quite often used to send his reader to a sacred meaning of the «blood and blood-sharing», whether it be in social or sexually-mystical context of his poetic works.

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I’m using the word «diaboli» here in proper Hellenic meaning of it, what means «columny» or, other way too, simply the «judging».

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Luxe Ferro, the «Highest Light», and so Lucifer – as we know, is a name of a brightest star in the Sky, like that for ex. in Ovid, and which now days called simply as the Polar Star. – The Shelley’s Ghost was originally picturized in image of a starry-eyed dead.

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P.S. – This poem far is not the representation or any kind of interpretation of Lynn’s fictional scenario with that strangest Shelley’s Henry of hers; and my idea, in these lines, was but of a sort of an author’s trying to picturize that possibly-objective «tete-a-tete» contact just between a Poet and his famous paranormal Ghost, and so, between the times of them too: between the Poet’s time with its past and future, and the Ghost’s time with its past and future indeed, closely to our measures; – however, we may know about it, that «twas a sort of result of that mental distortion happened to be in a cause of all the perfidy and calumny, which Shelley, in his life, have always been a victim and an arbitre of, and which was so impressively performed in Lynn Shepherd’s inventional book.

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К началу поэмы, мне хочется заметить, что моей целью в этом произведении нисколько не являлось такое, чтоб изобразить здесь всю истинную биографическую историю отношений между Percy и Leigh (совершенно грамотно, по-русски, было бы здесь писать оное как Лий, или даже Лих; однако, в сравнении мной ново-транскриптируемому имени Персий (Шеллей, как это ещё в 19в), – в чём-то более поход.