Dissonance in Early Poetry
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The primal poet sang at Jason’s feast,
At Jason’s wedding to Medea. Gods
Are vile: the marriage’s allure deceased
As Orpheus’s melody, at odds
With fate, began to fill the nuptial air.
His images stretched out in lyric lines
Across the ceremony, unaware
Of silent doom’s unspeakable designs.
The celebration’s food was laced with death
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Of murdered children or the poison on
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The robe the later bride wore. Poet’s breath,
…..Orpheus
Words, notes, and lyre were venom in the dawn
Of Jason’s bedding of Medea. She
Felt evil as he thrust in destiny.