The truth is that he has become a mythic figure.
As mythic figures, poets have multiple and often contradictory origins.
Characters would often be mythic figures, whether ancient or modern: people who, again, already have a place in our minds.
This mythic figure is with us - he is us - in bad times and good.
And it is loaded with mythic Western figures in addition to the noble marshal.
Illuminated from below, three mythic figures crowned a large clock.
Nor is King here the mythic figure who has become our only undisputed contemporary hero.
After all, I'm supposed to be a sort of, ahem, mythic figure.
He's like this huge sort of mythic figure.
Time is compressed, and a mythic figure is brought down to human scale.