Plurality - “Plurality”
Louis MacNeice writes, “World is other and other, world is here and there.” The world is constructed by variety. The plurality of life is categorically boundless. The philosophers’ affirmation that “the world is one” is unfounded considering that the world encompasses manifold creations that cannot be singularized.
Consciousness - “Plurality”
Louis MacNeice portrays consciousness as a substantial fragment of plurality: “With aching bone and sinew, conscious of things amiss,/Conscious of guilt and vast inadequacy and the sick/Ego and the broken past and the clock that goes too quick.” Man is conscious of undesirable and progressive actualities that are pervasive in life. The consciousness segregates man from other beings. Nevertheless, consciousness is not a guarantee in all for there are some who calculatedly espouse unconsciousness.
Tautology - “I am That I am”
Louis MacNeice explicates, “Definition is tautology: man is man,/Woman woman, and tree tree, and world world.” Definitions predominantly embody superfluity which results in redundant repetitions that suggest that some aspects cannot be explicated expansively.
“I am That I am” - “I am That I am”
Louis MacNeice employs a parody of the line “I am Whom I am” (Exodus 3:14) in the title. The Biblical allusion is a validation of God’s indisputable divinity. God is indefinability sturdily proclaims His transcendence. Conventional words would not exhaustively expend God’s nature.
