He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
To the poet, his travels, his adventures, his loves, his indignations are finally resolved in verse, and this, in the end becomes his permanent, indestructible life.
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.
The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.
The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.