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I am 17 years old and from the north of England. When writing, I go under the pseudonym "Daegal" - meaning 'dweller by the dark stream' in Anglo Saxon. I'm very interested in classical mythology, theology and philosophy and a lot of these characteristics often weave their way into my work in some form or another. I'm mostly influenced by the Romantics, Milton, Virgil, Homer, Ovid, Dante, Poe, Lovecraft, Yeats, Coleridge, Byron... I could go on. When I'm not writing poetry I tend to write and play music for my various projects. I play guitar, bass, drums an keyboards whenever I can - it's a hobby (I listen to lots of stuff, but mainly progressive: Dream Theater, Symphony X, Pagan's Mind, Rhapsody etc). I like to go surfing whenever I can too. I used to be athletic, I was captain of my local basketball team for about 18 months but I was forced to leave after I dislocated my knee a few years ago. Oh well!
I tend to write my poems in iambic pentameter - as it's closest to the rhythm of natural speech - and vary the rhyme schemes, from Miltonic free verse to the more complicated Terza Rima and Spenserian Stanza forms.
I hope you enjoy my poetry!
"L'Homme est né libre, mais partout il est dans les fers."
(Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.) - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"A thought which is not independent is a thought only half understood." - Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
"All that is needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
"History is written by the victors." - Machiavelli
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MY NEWS:
I'm currently in the middle of writing my most epic piece yet: The Eidolon. I'm quickly falling in love with the writing, and I'm planning on making a lot of progress with it in the coming months.
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MY RESIDENCE INFO:
City: Doncaster
State/Country: England
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