Fear and Trembling (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Penn Warren
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Language or languages, Nature, Communication, Poetry or poets, Fear, Creative process, Old age or elderly people, Aging
The Poem
“Fear and Trembling” is a poem of twenty-one lines expressing a poet’s questions about his ability to commune with nature in old age when he seeks to understand nature’s lessons and feels a burst of energy for poetic creation.
As its title implies, “Fear and Trembling” is a dark meditation about the limits of the ability of the human mind and the poetic imagination to bridge the gap between the subjective and objective realms of reality and to apprehend intimations of immortality in nature. The title may also express the awe-filled emotions inspired...
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