MentalFrog wrote:
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a specialized poem of a higher intellectual sentiment.
I hope your kidding.
Afraid not. But, hear me out.
The sentiment I refered to is the existential plight that most of the population is more than content to ignore; its purely intellectual, lacking emotional glee and the blind eye that Prometheus once granted mortals with his Blind Fates.
I call it specailized because its about WoW. While I imagine there are likely those interested in such things playing such a game, the vast majority of existential considerations are by those who haven't played the game. By centering it around something that's foriegn to an already relatively scalarly insignificant audience, he's specialized the poem to the very few who share the traits of this particular form of philosphy and those who play WoW.
As I referred to the Blind Fates above, stories such as the one our author left us is one that inspired the epics of the ancients. However, Homer and those of similar schools had left their epics in more culturally-aligned prospectives, such as those of war, while this author has chosen a distanced prospective.