... individual within a group. The presence of Apollo and Dionysus can be seen in both music and poetry in a number of ways. Not to confuse their figurative marriage with another familial metaphor, but they are brothers as well since they both share in the constitution of poetry and music. The epic poem is an Apollinian device; it owes its structure and form ... inspiring the creative production of lyrics. The ultimate match of the two is seen in the highest competency of art: tragedy. In tragedy the Dionysian and Apollonian factors serve to define and to perpetuate the other. The Dionysiac...

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