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May 28, 2019 8:05 PM Subscribe
Identify this half-remembered poem/short story/something or other. Possibly Milton?
I consider myself proficient in google-fu, but my art has finally failed me. Looking for a short poem about Satan (or possibly one of his other names).
I remember imagery depicting the archfiend as an otherwise-ordinary person in a city street. The poem was like a lamentation of sorts, not so much condemnation as a what-went-wrong treatise. The conclusion, and the part that sticks out most in my memory, was that the author diagnosed "a madness not of the mind but of the heart", or something similar (googling that in quotes turns up nothing relevant, naturally). The final question--whether we should therefore feel sorry for Mephistopheles--went unanswered. Halp.
I consider myself proficient in google-fu, but my art has finally failed me. Looking for a short poem about Satan (or possibly one of his other names).
I remember imagery depicting the archfiend as an otherwise-ordinary person in a city street. The poem was like a lamentation of sorts, not so much condemnation as a what-went-wrong treatise. The conclusion, and the part that sticks out most in my memory, was that the author diagnosed "a madness not of the mind but of the heart", or something similar (googling that in quotes turns up nothing relevant, naturally). The final question--whether we should therefore feel sorry for Mephistopheles--went unanswered. Halp.
It's not Shelley's "The Devil's Walk," is it?
posted by Mrs. Rattery at 4:47 AM on May 29, 2019
posted by Mrs. Rattery at 4:47 AM on May 29, 2019
Response by poster: None of these are it, but I did enjoy reading them. Any other guesses?
posted by queen anne's remorse at 9:37 AM on June 2, 2019
posted by queen anne's remorse at 9:37 AM on June 2, 2019
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The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost
posted by Little Dawn at 8:20 PM on May 28, 2019