Orpheus, Parzival, and Bartleby: Ways of Abstraction in Poetry.

The article offers information on the metaphors for abstraction by fragmentation and the disappearing quality that raises poetry. It mentions that the Orphic poet is not satisfied with nothingness and will try to redefine it, frequently in theological or ontological terms. It states that the kind of abstraction related to "Parzival" is one faithful to the subconscious, one that offends laws of the practical in preference of the intuitive.