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DEPENDING WHERE YOU LIVE

    Helplessness of ages
You are bound to feel
    If you live in the body.

    Aggressiveness of ages
You are bound to feel
    If you live in the vital.

    Blindness of ages
You are bound to feel
    if you live in the mind.

    Fruitfulness of ages
You are bound to feel
    If you live in the heart.    (p.355)

In this poem, the poet associates a unique world experience with each part of man's being. The poem, in effect, places before the reader a number of options and he must select from them according to the experience he desires. The poet asserts his control over this selection not by personal recommendation but by arranging the choices in such a way as to gradually lead the reader through various unsatisfying alternatives to the only possible choice, the "fruitfulness of ages" that constitutes the experience of the heart.