...and 'you demi-puppets whose pastime is to make midnight mushrooms', Prospero claims to have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds...and the azur'd vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt; the strong-bas'd...

...insubstantial art; the unnatural art which has been in 'artificial strife' with nature, has 'bedimm'd / The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds,...green sea and the azur'd vault / Set roaring war' (Vi.33-57). It is the inverse of Orpheus' art redeeming nature. Prospero is offered to us an example...

...landing. He uses his hands. He is weaving the weather. He brings thunder and lightning into Joss's room. 'The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the azured vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout...

...time he demonizes them. He states that by their aid — Weak masters though ye be — I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds,...and the azur'd vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt. (5.1.40-46) Having...

...from the norm are marked; - = unstressed, / = stressed, \ = secondary stress): I have bedimm'd / / The noontide sun, call'd forth | the mutinous winds,.../ . And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault / / . I Set roaring war; to the dread rat | tling thunder \ / Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's...

...the solemn curfew; by whose aid (Weak masters though ye be) I have bedimmed The noontide sun, called forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea...and the azur'd vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt: the strong-bas'd...

...audiences believe they were seeing scenes set in blackest night. Prospero goes on to say that he had: call'd forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war . . . Yes, Shakespeare had done that too, in the opening scene of The Tempest. Prospero even goes to...

...old sorcerer swears to give up magic, after one more spell. The magician retires I have bedimm'd Thc noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And...green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war: to the dread-rattling thunder Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt: the strong-bas'd...

...whose aid- / Weak masters though ye be-I have bedimm'd /The moontide sun, call'd forth the nnitinous winds, / And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault / Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder / Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's La fuerza poética de La tempestad, incluso...

...V, Prospero recounts his powers in language more suited to a god than a human being: I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds,...and the azur'd vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt; the strong-bas'd...