Ring of a Parable
Parabolic telling here,
- why Power and Poetry always Suspect and Dread each other.
Dragging caravan of books, writer's flying.
Writer doubly misunderstood
- Banishes him - getting his message wrong.
- Reading as mere fiction, another word for lies.
The poem dramatizes a confrontation that is Old and Proverbial.
Book with harmful knowledge - publicly burned.
Oxen - drag - cartloads of books.
A banished writer - one of the best
Shocked - his book has been passed over.
Wing of wrath - "Burn Me!", "Flying pen!"
"Haven't my books always reported the truth?"
Treating me like a Liar.
I command you: Burn Me!
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