In similar situations he often responded to antinomy-based descriptions of reality by saying that both antithetical options presented to him were inappropriate.
The individual exercising reason should remain aware of the crisis of reason and see the antinomy, those rationally unsolveable contradictions that reason unearths, as the basis for personal renewal.
As well as being centred on the transience of beauty and of human things, the poem points to the specular antinomy between human ideals and natural truth.
