I'm wondering if our Swedish compatriots will know who Edgar Allen Poe is - but anyhoo. I am taking a course in American Poetry this semester, and we're reading some Poe poems, and I happen upon "Dream-Land" which contains this:
'By a route obscure and lonely, / Haunted by ill angels only, / Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT, / On a black throne reigns upright, / I have reached these lands but newly ... '
'Bottomless vales and boundless floods / and chasms, and caves, and Titan woods, / with forms that no man can discover / For the tears that drip all over; / Mountains toppling evermore / into seas without a shore / Seas that restlessly aspire / Surging, unto skies of fire; '
Skies of fire! I think Poe clearly had a premonition dictating that one day a Swedish epic metal juggernaut would rear its ugly mug and cast a shadow upon the whole world. Either that or even back in the day they recognized the awesomeness of having your sky be all burnified.
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Discuss!
'By a route obscure and lonely, / Haunted by ill angels only, / Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT, / On a black throne reigns upright, / I have reached these lands but newly ... '
'Bottomless vales and boundless floods / and chasms, and caves, and Titan woods, / with forms that no man can discover / For the tears that drip all over; / Mountains toppling evermore / into seas without a shore / Seas that restlessly aspire / Surging, unto skies of fire; '
Skies of fire! I think Poe clearly had a premonition dictating that one day a Swedish epic metal juggernaut would rear its ugly mug and cast a shadow upon the whole world. Either that or even back in the day they recognized the awesomeness of having your sky be all burnified.
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Discuss!
