Tag: Biblical creation

When I studied Tudor Arghezi's work at secondary school, I was deeply impressed by the bold conclusion of the poem "He Who Thinks Independently," which brings the 1955 volume Song to Man to a close: "It is time, old servant and slave of the evil one, / You, man and brother, to be your own master." Long before that, in 1871, the British poet Algernon Charles Swinburne had written "Hymn to Man," which also concludes triumphantly: "Glory to man in the highest! For man is the master of things."