The entire poem is extremely long, so if it's not your thing, don't feel forced to put up with it. The section around that line (if you can control-F it) is very cool, the speaker is trying to work through some of his feelings about faith and nature (this is also the poem where we get "nature, red in tooth and claw"--chronologically we're right on the cusp of Darwinian evolution but people haven't quite figure that out yet so there's a lot of cool science ideas bouncing around).
The last few sections before the epilogue (especially the second-to-last) are also worth skipping to if the whole thing is not for you, or anybody else, in my view. :)
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Date: 2013-06-22 04:56 pm (UTC)The entire poem is extremely long, so if it's not your thing, don't feel forced to put up with it. The section around that line (if you can control-F it) is very cool, the speaker is trying to work through some of his feelings about faith and nature (this is also the poem where we get "nature, red in tooth and claw"--chronologically we're right on the cusp of Darwinian evolution but people haven't quite figure that out yet so there's a lot of cool science ideas bouncing around).
The last few sections before the epilogue (especially the second-to-last) are also worth skipping to if the whole thing is not for you, or anybody else, in my view. :)