Analysis of Fable by Nina Cassian :: Cassian Fable Essays

psychoanalysis of fictionalization by Nina Cassian    Whereas the extent of my poetic appreciation lies in a decided distaste for Dante and a zest for limericks concerning Nantucket - it behooves me to discuss a poetry that my limited capacities can grasp. Fable by Nina Cassian is just such a poem. I view this piece as Ms. Cassians perspective on support (a sentence or an obligation), death, and sadly, the fact that most plenty do not appreciate the beautific nature of existence.   I understand the first stanza as a depiction of mans earthly plane as a sort of exam ground for angels - a place where beings are concerned with the development of spirit, to winner imbalance.   The help and third stanzas I interpret as the transformation of the aery spirit to a corporeal state. The angel plummeted and thus left ghostly beauty in a quest for purity.   The angel,s descent is clearly galled ...feathers carbonized, his sole wing impotent, dangling. Though the cost of corporeal existence is dear, I believe Ms. Cassian sees this as an obligation which must be met, a sentence.   The concluding sentence is the saddest. The nature of this newly formed being is mundanely categorized. The people fail to see its purpose and its intrinsic beauty by extension, they seduce lost their own missions, their own true value. They have forgotten God.   The second poem was written by an astonishingly brillant N.Y.U. student hoping to receive an A in an introductory literature course taught by a fascinate (and underpaid) professsor.   12/2/97 is the date that this author spent about six minutes dead.   He had minored in theology and had developed a healthy scepticism concerning all religions. The author had laughed at so called near-death experiences - accept them either fantasy or resultant of a chemical discrimination of the frontal lobe in times of catastrophic distress.   This erstwhile pillager of the headache world, this glo rified strett hustler discovered upon his demise that as the people of Fable he had lost his way, his appreciation, his God.