End of the Seers’ Convention

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End of the Seers’ Convention (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)

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The Poem

“End of the Seers’ Convention” is a narrative poem in blank verse which is essentially a conversation or series of statements delivered by various delegates at an imaginary conference of mystics and other representatives of the occult. After the narrator, or central consciousness of the poem, sets the scene, one of the practitioners of parapsychological phenomena offers prophetic observations on the future of humankind to which the others respond with derision or dismissal.

The incredible is casually established when the narrator remarks that he and his...

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