A change of mood with the change of
stanza, a need to call out with some specificity a change of place.
“This pit here” attempts to project the reader into an immediate
situation, while equating that immediacy to “this location”
immediately turns toward abstraction, at least in mathematical terms.
This pit here is also this location: where we are as readers, you my
readers, is a place identified by its coordinates, but a place that
can be pointed to with a “this” and where we may be actually
situated, wherefore “here.” Nevertheless, it's a pit: pit of
hell, pit of this world, pit of the next, pit of the undeworld (the
fosse Ezra Pound and Homer dug and poured blood into to revive and
make strong the dead for a moment, Canto I). There's a possibility
of things happening just here, bad things perhaps – perhaps bad
things are happening here now.
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