Are you interested in poetry? :
I'm wondering,how I should understand fragment of the poem of A.Pope...I like his poetry,but this fragment is probably too "ambitious" for me ;)

"Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state
A being darkly wise, and rudely great:
With too much knowledge for the sceptic side
With too much weakness for the stoic's pride
He hangs between in doubt to act, or rest
In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast "

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Are you interested in poetry? :>
I'm wondering,how I should understand fragment of the poem of A.Pope...I like his poetry,but this fragment  is probably too "ambitious" for me ;)

"Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state
A being darkly wise, and rudely great:
With too much knowledge for the sceptic side
With too much weakness for the stoic's pride
He hangs between in doubt to act, or rest
In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast "

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Thank you :) this what I you've written helped me.
besides,earlier I had understood it in the way, that this fragment describe human conditions-we are bound to nature but at the same time we have great aspirations; we cannot be entirely sceptical about things because we know a great deal but what we know is not enough to become dauntless

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rather poetically ;)

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