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Caliban upon Setebos is an 1864
poem written by the
British poet
Robert Browning. It deals with
Caliban, a character from
Shakespeare's The Tempest, and his reflections on Setebos, the brutal god he believes in. Some scholars see Browning as being of the belief that
God is in the eye of the beholder, and this is emphasized by a barbaric character believing in a barbaric god. Others feel that he was
satirizing theologians of his time, who attempted to understand God as a reflection of themselves; this theory is supported by the
epigraph,
Psalm 50:21, "Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself." This could be taken as God mocking Caliban (and Browning's contemporaries) for their methods of attempting to understand Him (see note at the bottom of
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The poem is referred to in
Dan Simmons' science fiction books
Ilium and
Olympos, in which Caliban and Setebos are villains.
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