Hyperion's Song Of Fate Analysis

Hyperion’s Song of Fate Symbolism Although Holdelin wrote Hyperion’s Song of Fate during the French Revolution in 1799, he sets the poetry that involves Greek mythology. He used Hyperion, a Greek Titan god, as a narrator to describe the difference between a flawless, infinite life of immortal and the imperfect and hopeless life of humanity. Holdelin chose Hyperion because he was a god who was overthrown by the other gods to live in the mortal world. Holdelin used Hyperion’s perspective in both immortal and mortal life. Each stanza has its own symbolic meaning that represents the difference of lives between immortality and mortality. Holdelin used the harper, eternal flowers, and rock to symbolize each stanza’s meaning. The “harper” in Stanza I line five describes the “shining winds divine” that touches the gods so lightly. When a harper touches the strings of
First of all, the rock is an element for earth. Earth is where mortal lives. It symbolizes hardship, endurance, and strength. Hyperion realizes that the mortal life is a restless place. In line three and four where he said “we faint, we fall, suffering, human” describes that humanity is full of pain, sacrifices, and cruelty. Humans are blind and are never satisfied of what they have. They desire for more without realizing the effect it does around them. This is why Earth will always be dark and full hatred. Clearly, mortal life is the imperfect version of the immortal life. However, the point of this poetry is to not just describe the difference between the mortal and immortal lives. Holdelin wants the humanity to just stop trying to make life to be as perfect as the immortal because in reality, immortality does not exists. Humanity is the real one who actually exists. The mortal life is never going to be perfect and that is the beauty in it because people actually feel. Whether it is pain or love, it is better than to feel nothing at