Here Theseus appears as the King of Drum Phaedra becomes the General Hippolytus becomes the Queen. In the fourth poem, The Queen of Drum, Lewis retells the story of Hippolytus. An archetypal mariner takes up the quest, in the form of an Anglo-Saxon alliterative poem, to reunite the Great Mother with the Mystic Father. In the third poem, The Nameless Isle, Lewis again takes up the theme of renewal of a place that has fallen into decay. The second poem, Launcelot, contrasts the "three dead men," who have brought about the spiritual ruin of Camelot, with the "three living men, who redeem themselves, as well as their king, through moral righteousness. The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. It is an allegory of seasonal renewal by death, rebirth, and cosmic renewal by heroic sacrifice. Though the similarities between these two plays have long been recognized, surprisingly little has been written on what they have in common. Instead, check out Mick Jacksons Threads, which is currently showing on MUBI. The first poem, Dymer, tells the story of a young man who leaves the Perfect City, falls in love, issues a monstrous child which kills him. The year 1995 marks the 400th anniversary of the probable first production of Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Nights Dream. The Outer Limits: The Forms of Things Unknown is not available at this time. Lewis, all published posthumously in a collection entitled Narrative Poems.
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