Click to Subscribe
‘Only the Wall’
The Gladiator and the Lady by Robert E. Howard
© 2019 James LaFond
SEP/15/19
Reading from A Word from the Outer Dark, pages 95-6
This well-knit poem of two verses, the first 8 lines, the second 6 lines, treats with three subjects, intertwined often in Howard’s expressed psyche:
-Barbarism as a naturally human social expression and civilization as corrupting compromise between human expression and our material obsession.
-A belief in the existence of many Аrуаn races, rather than the single indistinct economic race of the “Whiteman” that his contemporaries were so obsessed with, making him something of a throwback to an 18th century man.
-That civilization, as a key to its function, economically and hierarchically, place barriers between men and women who might naturally be bested suited for one another, usually by economic-based class mechanisms.
A sample of The Gladiator and the Lady is quoted below:
“When I was a boy in Britain, and you were a girl in Rome,
Forests and mountains lay between, and the hungry wrestles foam.
Today naught lay between us, only the wall at least,
That guards the proud patrician from the slave and the dying beast.”
Howard’s every story and poem, all heroic, some whimsical, some comedic, most horrific, seem bound by one overriding message, that Civilization secures us against the harsh realities and experiential promise that shaped our ancestors, and that we are diminished by the coddling of our masters, but more deeply by the internalized assumption implicit in our social structure that we are superior to our forebearers, when we are scarcely worthy to claim their patrimony.
A Well of Heroes
A Well of Heroes: Two:
Literary Impressions of the Prose and Verse of Robert E. Howard
‘The Burning Breath of Azrael’
a well of heroes
'The Iron Harp'
eBook
on combat
eBook
into leviathan’s maw
eBook
cracker-boy
eBook
the greatest lie ever sold
eBook
hate
eBook
the lesser angels of our nature
eBook
fanatic
eBook
thriving in bad places
eBook
menthol rampage
eBook
america the brutal
eBook
beasts of aryas
eBook
within leviathan’s craw
eBook
honor among men
eBook
time & cosmos
eBook
broken dance
eBook
ranger?
eBook
fiction anthology one
eBook
the greatest boxer
eBook
let the world fend for itself
eBook
song of the secret gardener
eBook
fate
eBook
your trojan whorse
eBook
z-pill forever
eBook
the first boxers
eBook
on the overton railroad
eBook
sons of aryas
eBook
night city
eBook
wife—
eBook
when you're food
eBook
masculine axis
eBook
songs of aryas
eBook
the sunset saga complete
eBook
taboo you
eBook
winter of a fighting life
eBook
the combat space
eBook
barbarism versus civilization
eBook
son of a lesser god
eBook
book of nightmares
eBook
under the god of things
eBook
all-power-fighting
eBook
orphan nation
eBook
the fighting edge
eBook
by the wine dark sea
eBook
the year the world took the z-pill
eBook
logic of force
eBook
blue eyed daughter of zeus
eBook
sorcerer!
eBook
predation
eBook
uncle satan
eBook
advent america
eBook
logic of steel
eBook
triumph
eBook
the gods of boxing
eBook
solo boxing
eBook
dark, distant futures
TWS     Sep 16, 2019

This it's the central theme of Howard, civilization is a mental physical and spiritual degeneration.
  Add a new comment below:
Name
Email
Message