Word: prometheus
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...principal contribution to the November Monthly is a poem, "Prometheus Pyrphoros," by J. T. Stickney '95. The poem is an attempt to imagine what was contained in a lost play by Aeschylus. The versification, however, which is almost entirely of blank form, does not follow the model of the ancients. Instead of ten syllables to a verse there are more often eleven, with now and then a passage in rhyme. The style as a whole is very subtle and obscure. The basis of the poem is the fable of Prometheus: He attempts to bring light and fire to the people...