EMMA. FIND IT NOW. My uni library only has it in an ancient volume called For The Time Being, which combines this poem and a Christmas Oratorio poem, but it should be included in any complete verse works of Auden, too.
IT'S SO AMAZING. Chapter 1 is Prospero to Ariel, then Chapter 2 is all the different characters with different poem styles (like the Miranda one above) interspersed with little commentaries by Antonio, eg. this follows the Miranda poem:
One link is missing, Prospero, My magic is my own; Happy Miranda does not know The figure that Antonio, The Only One, Creation’s O, Dances for Death alone.
And then Chapter 3 is a very long prose-poem, Caliban to the Audience, which is a brilliant ramble about the nature of art and magic. And then there's an epilogue, Ariel to Caliban.
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IT'S SO AMAZING. Chapter 1 is Prospero to Ariel, then Chapter 2 is all the different characters with different poem styles (like the Miranda one above) interspersed with little commentaries by Antonio, eg. this follows the Miranda poem:
One link is missing, Prospero,
My magic is my own;
Happy Miranda does not know
The figure that Antonio,
The Only One, Creation’s O,
Dances for Death alone.
And then Chapter 3 is a very long prose-poem, Caliban to the Audience, which is a brilliant ramble about the nature of art and magic. And then there's an epilogue, Ariel to Caliban.