Heart of Darkness

[Roy Hobbs]

Hi Roy, thanks for the comments.

"If the good on earth be the slightest reflection of heaven
then this must be only the slightest shadow of Hell,
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The entire poem, taken bulkly is one major premise and
one minor premise in an Aristotelian syllogism of the
First Figure, Mode AAA-- figure and mode optional
(I chose the simplest).

Of course this is a poem more along the lines of "Job",
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I argue provisionally that it is not ...

The balance between God and Job is knocked askew
by God's absolute distance. In this poem, the 'other
side' in the dialectic, meets on the 'narrow ridge'
(Martin Buber translated by Maurice Friedman), where
A admits to the unique in B (both the same person)
speaking in a kind of stalled thesis/antithesis, and
of course, fettered by restraints imposed by poetry.

These restraints, felt in semi-consciousness and sub-
immediacy, affect context to the degree the poet has
given himself over to the form-- his self-imposed
poetic honor, as it were.

I pause here. I may have already gotten in too
deep to work my way out. "Pull back, the better
to leap"
rh