[In-world allusion] Eathel's Notes During Sagavond's Poetics Symposium

After begging his father to be included, Eathel is finally permitted to study letters with the other young noblemen (and some daring noblewomen) in the court at the Teran capital, Xiatep Tera.

"Sidechamber poems" in Teran post-soloway¹ epoch

One of the classic forms of the post soloway period¹

BANNED--duke ii tera (great g father)

Unnamed XXXI by vimiçitus ("vim")

• note: unpublished, and appears to be a draft. Should be considered unfinished.

• note ii: written days before final verdict in capital case against him for 'Panegyria Tera'²

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example of Circellet³

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Sagavond, Eathel’s tutor, teaches a select few of the noblemen and women about poetics.

id like to get close
to something like this
to invite a kiss
amid the close
of your eyelids

id like to know
this enclosing smiling
in each fraction of bliss
of the heartbeat
in your curved ribs

and what you will know
by herein the fifth
that i intend this a rose
with petals of letters
which my writ soul enfold

I'd prize the ghost
and knowingly beguile
the dark parts I have hid
battened by ropes
that I never undid

I'd hope the most
for always some inner
chance at a tryst
a joyous roam
and home intended


With regard unto the foregoring. ← always incl., at least as interpolation at closura turn

I could live within
something like this dream
— unseen
— redeemed
— it seemed

note on final three lines⁴

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↑so vim. attempting to assimilate in new post-soloway period!

• aesthetic according to engagement with sublime and rapture.

• for a draft piece it mostly holds up to classic standards of aesthetics and is a quality piece.

• "we" (general consensus of academy) believe that had vim. lived, likely would have gone over again to fix into harder meter as he was under house arrest at time of writing.

notes et appendices

I. vs soloway, pre-soloway (must get dates of these periods from S.)

• presura-that which precedes closura

• closura turn-alerts reader to brace for change

• closura-how do we identify closura? marked by contrast in all areas of meter that defined the presura

• dilactic form-poem consisting of a pair, no more/no less of orderly verse passages affixed before and after 'closura turn'-a metagnos indicatus to audience

• metagnos (in general)-the thematic made into letters; that is, a literal articulation of the themes present in the piece

• metagnos indicatus-an instance of these that serves to harken a reader's attention toward some element of the piece.

1. to be considered post soloway, all stanze (closura turn not to be accounted for as a stanza or toward the front orientation of the piece) must consist of precicely same # lines + at minimum teran soft meter; usually harder rhythms than that.

& post soloway approach = more rigorous meter vs. pre-soloway

& heavy enforcement of poetic standards for poesie of the court at xiatep tera

& up to/incl. imprisonment, death esp. for expressions of dissent in areas political, social or cultural

2. infamous satire of tera at time; vim under house arrest in city house in xiatep.

3. circelet-poem defined by # five, ea. element of main body structured around five, eg. presura of five stanze ea. of five lines (like this one)

4. (“— it unseen…” and final three lines indicate this is unfinished—vim is drafting final stanza and putting “—” as placeholder for, apparently, rhymes he may wish to exploit)