Tag: Giant

Poe's typically romantic existential desperation arises precisely from this contrast: wanting to experience the infinite through the finite and the absolute through the relative; wanting to knock on the doors of mystery and access the secret of existence, without giving up the role of the rational investigator and the wayfarer who does not believe there are other paths to the truth, outside those recognizable by reason but who, nevertheless, warns and he senses that there is something else, perhaps an Unknown God, to approach which other tools and other mental attitudes would be needed.