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./ Thatcan priest who affects both the  secular and cleric steers the world, not man, Rolfe tells Derwent.tone. He has the  emblems of that facile wit, /  In the dust / Of wisdom sit thee down, and rust.Which suits the age a happy fit. Derwent, in But rather than simply withdrawing from the worldother words, tends to rationalize his own times and and finding a cloister, Mortmain travels, appar-is far less skeptical than Rolfe and the other pil- ently seeking nature s secrets.Derwent responds:grims.Other new pilgrims include a  solid stolid  There s none so far astray, / Detached, abandoned,Elder and a banker from the Levant.The most as might seem, / As to exclude the hope, the dreamimportant addition is Mortmain, a man of  rigorous / Of fair redemption.Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land 53Cantos 5 7:  Clarel and Glaucon ;  The CHARLES DARWIN quotes Shelley, the narratorHamlet ;  Guide and Guard notes, referring to a passage in Darwin s journalThe giddy Glaucon tells Clarel all about his plans to in which he quotes Percy Bysshe Shelley s poemmarry the banker s daughter.Derwent comments:  Mont Blanc :  None can reply all seems eternal This lad is like a land of springs & he gushes sonow./ The wilderness has a mysterious tongue, /with song. Rolfe, too, marvels at Glaucon s unre- Which teaches awful doubt. The lines recall thesponsiveness to the pilgrimage.As the pilgrimsfeeling of emptiness, of lack of meaning, that desertsapproach a hamlet, Clarel thinks of Christ s painfulcan evoke.In Clarel, the immensity of the desertjourney to his crucifixion.The group is guided byattracts the pilgrims, but also defeats them:  menDjalea, a Druze from Lebanon.Rumored to be thehere adore this ground / Which doom hath smitten.son of an emir (a prince or chieftain), he has a dig- Tis a land / Direful yet holy blest tho banned.nity and self-contained quality that make him a fas-Cantos 12 13:  The Banker ;  Flight of thecinating figure, the representative of a religion thatGreekscombines Eastern and Western elements but thatRolfe wonders why the banker is on the pilgrimage,is little understood by the pilgrims.Djalea has sixsince it seems an unlikely activity for a worldly mancompanions, old Arab Bethlehemites, with Belex, aconcerned with money.Clarel, meanwhile, turnstough old Turkish warrior, in command.from Rolfe and Mortmain, whom Clarel finds dis-Canto 8:  Rolfe and Derwentturbing, to Vine, whose  level sameness remainsAs the journey continues, Derwent  invoked hiscomforting and intriguing.When a band of 10spirits bright. He suggests to Rolfe that Belex rep-armed Turks crosses the paths of the pilgrims, theresents the  inherent vigor of man s life. But Rolfebanker and Glaucon arrange to leave the pilgrims,is not taken by this one example, asking  Prone,clearly having had enough of the journey in theprone are era, man and nation / To slide into a deg-desert.radation? / With some, to age is that but that.Canto 14:  By AchorDerwent finds such sentiments  pathetic.The Druze leads the pilgrims into the valley ofAchor, the site of the slaughter related in chapterCantos 9 10:  Through Adommin ;  A Haltseven of the Old Testament book of Joshua.JoshuaThe pilgrims pass through Adommin, presumed toand his band of 3,000 were defeated, and Achanbe the place where Christ spoke the parable of thethe thief was  made to die. His children wereGood Samaritan (Luke 10:30 37), which Nehe-stoned and burned, the narrator recalls.Rolfe sur-miah proceeds to retell.The singing Glaucon, com-veys the scene and speaks of  Nature & in regionpletely out of tune with the pilgrimage, provokesroundabout / She s Calvinistic, if devout / In all herthe banker s outburst:  Have done with this lewdaspect. This invocation of PREDESTINATION, a fea-balladry! During a halt in the journey, Derwentture of CALVINISTIC religion, is not commented onand Rolfe discuss its significance as Mortmain sitsby the others.Vine, for example, rides in  thought s aloof and  all disarmed. Nehemiah fascinateshid repast. Clarel is  receptive, saw and heard,both Derwent and Rolfe, who says  And shall we/ Learning, unlearning, word by word. Mortmainsay / That this is craze? or but, in brief, / Simplic-is remote.And Rolfe goes on speaking, not givingity of plain belief? / The early Christians, how didDerwent an opportunity to interrupt.they? / For His return looked any day. Clarel pon-ders Rolfe s words and then Rolfe himself, wonder-Cantos 15 18:  The Fountain ;  Night ining at the man s  bluntness and whether it is rightJericho ;  In Mid-Watch ;  The Syrian Monkto be put off by it or to accept it as truth.Finally, Derwent finds something in the scene toCanto 11:  Of Deserts praise,  truly, the fount wells grateful here, heThe narrator explores the nature of deserts as a remarks to Clarel [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]