Oppenheimer.
Arjuna, fated is Pralaya, world drowned in tears of God
A cosmic dissolution, where once mortal feet trod
Sea instead of soil, all drowned and violenced
A few shall laugh, a few shall cry, but most be silenced
And yet, Arjuna, burns a question, in my mind
Why must water be Death, in the end of time?
Should not Fire, its rival, marry Earth with hell?
Must I, a god, alone? When man may just as well.
Are we not become death? Destroyer of worlds.
Intertextuality
The Upanishads. "Bhagavad Gita."
Frost, Robert. "Fire and Ice."
Bird, Kai, and Martin J. Sherwin. "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer."
The Holy Bible.
Ideas
1. Eschatology (Mircae Eliade “History of Religion, Vol. 2”)
2. Climate change
3. Nuclear warfare
4. Fire (Hinduism: tapas) (Mircae Eliade “History of Religion, Vol. 2”)
5. water (hinduism: pralaya) (Mircae Eliade “History of Religion, Vol. 2”)
8. Imago Dei (christian theology: thomas aquinas)
