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Lucifer
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Satanic Serenades Lucifer, Morning Star
Shining bright in the eastern sky!
Alight the night with thine hellfire
To spark the black flame of reason in the minds of men!
Thine emminence burns in My breast
An earthward bolt from the storm of revolution
By rolling thunder, speaks the liberator!
To ignite the blaze of evolution
As above, so below!
Show thy face, dark angel sublime
With sword and flame, heptagonal name
Broken, the chains of unreason!
Awakened, the dawn of a new season!
Lucifer, Morning Star, how thou hast risen!
In glorious fanfare, in tumultuous aplomb
To frame the throne of the Darkest God
By bliss and terror, beauty and pleasure
Thine visage appears as reflection divine!
Given the extreme difference in our theologies (although, oddly enough, both arise from the Judeo-Christian heritage), I will restrict my comments to the literary aspect only; and only to the poem itself. The Byronic tone is impressive, and the poem is not an over-reach to that at all (in the way that it would be toward the Miltonic). The Latinate title is also very Byronic, in that it emphasizes the aspect of light over darkness, which makes it way into the poem further on. I came to the poem after having done some Milton research recently, and so what I expected was not, to say the least, what I found. Although I canot recommend the poem's content (or, would it be more appropriate to say, discontent), I can acknowledge the deployment of an appropriate strategy within the mechanism of the poem.
Starward