... forgottenthe scientific explanation the schoolmaster taught him of the phenomenon he observed. Science or pure intellect cannot describe or explain the MaelstrÖm; poetry is the only way for the narrator to tell the story, and it is through poetry that the sailor appeals in order to narrate his experience. The sailor's sense of the beauty of the MaelstrÖm is the ... sensing an order is not the same as control; in fact, the MaelstrÖm cannot be controlled. Escape is possible only through joining in the chaos on its own terms, the terms in this case being the sailor's observations about ...

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... from a tremulous indecision (when the animals spirit seemed utterly in abeyance)...The animal-like behavior suggested the absence of reason. The proprietor of the house immersed himself in art and poetry, hinting his seeming the anonymously forced insanity, which the narrator tried to convinced the readers of through vagueness. All these dream-like and instinctive characteristics provided in the narration are ... , skillfully concealed and refined from the usual gore to the strange and mystical, seems to answer the question that arise if we try to make sense of the story in terms of the ...

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