The Dramatic Poet Character Analysis in Faust

The Dramatic Poet, along with the Manager and Player of Comic Roles, is staging a production of Faust for a German theater in the “Prelude on the Stage” scene. He believes, in contrast to the pragmatic Manager, that it is the poet’s fundamental right to express his dreams and visions in an eternal poetic form, to be handed down to posterity. Scorning the idea of merely entertaining people, the Dramatic Poet represents the aesthetic, visionary perspective on art: creating true, beautiful poems that exist only for their own sake.

The Dramatic Poet Quotes in Faust

The Faust quotes below are all either spoken by The Dramatic Poet or refer to The Dramatic Poet. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:

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When Nature, unconcerned, twirls her endless thread
and fixes it upon the spindle,
when all creation’s inharmonious myriads
vex us with a potpourri of sound,
who then divides the strand monotonously unreeling
and gives it life and rhythmic motion,
who summons single voices to the general choir
where music swells in glorious accord?

Related Characters: The Dramatic Poet (speaker)

Page Number and Citation: 142-149

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