Example of Lucretian Influence

 If ever you needed proof of Stevens being a Lucrecian poet, here is your evidence.


Flyer's Fall

This man escaped the dirty fates,
Knowing that he did nobly, as he died

Darkness, nothingness, of the human after-death,
Receive and keep him in the deepnesses of space_

Profundum, physical thunder, dimension in which
We believe without belies, beyond belief.


I have stepped up to the ledge, peeked over the cliff of oblivion. It calls to me not to be scared. Leap! Grab sky with arms wide, hug clouds while transcending into an abyssal brain. Deliberately living life, loping lullabies through lovely lobes, I hear colors frequency. The fall cleans rubble from my Shattered Existence. Dancing around frames of flesh, wind whipping within twilight lit cotton. I knew to take the plunge. When landing My faith has granted me a world without fearing the six foot decent. I will be but dust after all, so i go forth with golden rays in the breast.

Seeing that this man broke the shackles of earthly fear. He did so with his head held high.
An infinite shadow of galaxies call to keep him.
Within our skin we plea to unknowing knowables, beyond  knowing "the nothing that is"

 
This is a sculpture named "The Nothing that Is."

I saw this and couldn't help but share it. This sculpture, just like the "Flyers Fall," are the essence of the Lucretian ideal. We are nothing, what comes before and after us does not care if we think of them. We are all just shapes that fill a space as we venture into the void of sublime conciousness. When we cast aside our fear of death, only then can we be free to live as we were meant to. Never worry about previous eves absent of our presence. Nor shall we think of the evolution chasing after dusty bones. You can escape your dirty fate, by hurdling into the now.