Fallen Man Poem by Frank Avon

Fallen Man



His body is not
his body,
their bodies
are his:

Albion rising
Los ascendant
even the aged Urizen, and of course,
Newton

heroic,
ideal,
in the order of Michelangelo
but erroneous,
'petrifying all the Human Imagination
into Rock & Sand, '

his body isosceles triangles
as is his compass
and his design,
Reason personified,
at the bottom
of the Sea Time and Space,

his only hope
in his robe
becoming a scroll:

the embodiment of Error
is a work of the Eternal

Monday, July 20, 2015
Topic(s) of this poem: fall,heroic,loss,reason,visionary
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Based on Chapter 17 of Peter Ackroyd's biography of William Blake, 'Newtons sleep.'
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