Dithyramben

A sequence of expressionistic poems and dramatic monologues portrays the roaring modern city, technological spectacle, and social injustice. Multiple speakers — a cinema director, a fervent student, an orator addressing the dispossessed, and a guilty intellectual — expose alienation, hunger, and moral urgency through vivid urban imagery: organs, factory chimneys, film screens, collapsing hotels and tenements. Recurrent appeals for empathy and collective action alternate with self-reproach and lyrical excess, producing a collage of protest, spectacle, and longing that probes the gap between poetic aspiration and everyday suffering.