bfusion
02-15-2003, 06:21 PM
This is "the conqueror worm", a poem from the short story Ligeia, written by Edgar Allan Poe.
The Conqueror Worm
Lo! 't is a gala night
Within the lonesome latter years!
An angel throng, bewinged, bedight
In veils, and drowned in tears,
Sit in a theatre, to see
A play of hopes and fears,
While the orchestra breathes fitfully
The music of the spheres.
Mimes, in the form of God on high,
Mutter and mumble low,
And hither and thither fly --
Mere puppets they, who come and go
At bidding of vast formless things
That shift the scenery to and fro,
Flapping from out their Condor wings
Invisible Wo!
That motley drama! -- oh, be sure
It shall not be forgot!
With its Phantom chased forever more,
By a crowd that seize it not,
Through a circle that ever returneth in
To the self-same spot,
And much of Madness and more of Sin
And Horror the soul of the plot.
But see, amid the mimic rout,
A crawling shape intrude!
A blood-red thing that writhes from out
The scenic solitude!
It writhes! -- it writhes! -- with mortal pangs
The mimes become its food,
And the seraphs sob at vermin fangs
In human gore imbued.
Out -- out are the lights -- out all!
And over each quivering form,
The curtain, a funeral pall,
Comes down with the rush of a storm,
And the angels, all pallid and wan,
Uprising, unveiling, affirm
That the play is the tragedy, 'Man,'
And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
In the short story Poe claims that a beautiful woman named, Ligeia taught him this poem. Ligeia's eyes were large black orbs. If you read this poem carefully, there are many correlations between it and the Enuma Elish(and other stories about the 12th planet, Nibiru). The music of the spheres probably refers to orbits, then, the mimes(or moons) cause an invisible wo, this could be changes in gravity(as our moons do with the tides). The words self-same spot are very key, when talking about the odd orbit of Nibiru, people say it always returns to the self-same spot. This is an obvious allusion to this mysterious planet. In the next stanza, something begins eating or destroying the moons and planets(Along with the humans). Then, in the last stanza it tells of a dead race "man".
The Enuma Elish tells of a similiar end for our planet. Mumu(The Sun) disrupts the elliptical dance(orbit) of another god(or planet) slamming it into Tiamat(Earth).
The similarities are interesting, and the fact that Poe claimed that a creature with black orbs for eyes taught him the poem adds more mystery to this.
If anyone knows of any other odd correlations between this or that please let me know!
Good Day.
The Conqueror Worm
Lo! 't is a gala night
Within the lonesome latter years!
An angel throng, bewinged, bedight
In veils, and drowned in tears,
Sit in a theatre, to see
A play of hopes and fears,
While the orchestra breathes fitfully
The music of the spheres.
Mimes, in the form of God on high,
Mutter and mumble low,
And hither and thither fly --
Mere puppets they, who come and go
At bidding of vast formless things
That shift the scenery to and fro,
Flapping from out their Condor wings
Invisible Wo!
That motley drama! -- oh, be sure
It shall not be forgot!
With its Phantom chased forever more,
By a crowd that seize it not,
Through a circle that ever returneth in
To the self-same spot,
And much of Madness and more of Sin
And Horror the soul of the plot.
But see, amid the mimic rout,
A crawling shape intrude!
A blood-red thing that writhes from out
The scenic solitude!
It writhes! -- it writhes! -- with mortal pangs
The mimes become its food,
And the seraphs sob at vermin fangs
In human gore imbued.
Out -- out are the lights -- out all!
And over each quivering form,
The curtain, a funeral pall,
Comes down with the rush of a storm,
And the angels, all pallid and wan,
Uprising, unveiling, affirm
That the play is the tragedy, 'Man,'
And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
In the short story Poe claims that a beautiful woman named, Ligeia taught him this poem. Ligeia's eyes were large black orbs. If you read this poem carefully, there are many correlations between it and the Enuma Elish(and other stories about the 12th planet, Nibiru). The music of the spheres probably refers to orbits, then, the mimes(or moons) cause an invisible wo, this could be changes in gravity(as our moons do with the tides). The words self-same spot are very key, when talking about the odd orbit of Nibiru, people say it always returns to the self-same spot. This is an obvious allusion to this mysterious planet. In the next stanza, something begins eating or destroying the moons and planets(Along with the humans). Then, in the last stanza it tells of a dead race "man".
The Enuma Elish tells of a similiar end for our planet. Mumu(The Sun) disrupts the elliptical dance(orbit) of another god(or planet) slamming it into Tiamat(Earth).
The similarities are interesting, and the fact that Poe claimed that a creature with black orbs for eyes taught him the poem adds more mystery to this.
If anyone knows of any other odd correlations between this or that please let me know!
Good Day.