Strange Loop - Analysis of "The Soul unto itself"
(I submitted this to my Modern Poetry class on Coursera) The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend � Or the most agonizing Spy � An Enemy � could send � Secure against its own � No treason it can fear � Itself � its Sovereign � of itself The Soul should stand in Awe � This topic of this poem is the soul's relationship to itself. There are two descriptions of this relationship which wrap around each other throughout the poem - master and enemy. Let's consider the phrases of the poem individually. "The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend �" The first concept introduced is the "Soul". The soul is the entire essence of a person - his identity, his thoughts, his emotions, his desires, and his will. The soul is a complex thing with multiple dimensions. Plato thought that it had three parts - roughly the animal appetites, the rational being, and the will which arbitrates between them. "Soul" is similar to the wor...
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