Without knowing the poem this stanza is from, it's not possible to explain it in its broader context, but these four lines hold together as one thought and can be explained in terms of a Freudian concept. The "soul" is the innate spirit of a person who has natural inner wisdom. This inner wisdom is suppressed by the socio-cultural "conscience" superimposed upon the soul by the concept known as the Freudian Super-Ego. The "body" is...
Without knowing the poem this stanza is from, it's not possible to explain it in its broader context, but these four lines hold together as one thought and can be explained in terms of a Freudian concept. The "soul" is the innate spirit of a person who has natural inner wisdom. This inner wisdom is suppressed by the socio-cultural "conscience" superimposed upon the soul by the concept known as the Freudian Super-Ego. The "body" is represented as separate from and inferior to the "soul" and is additionally represented as the "fatal fence" that entraps the "soul": the body is the untamed being that requires the conscience developed by the Super-Ego and that buries the soul, "The Soul lies buried...." Resulting in the entrapment of the soul, the person ("Man") never ventures to go out around the body: the person never dares to transcend the physical and soar in transcendental spirituality to find birth and life instead of burial; freedom from the conscience, the body, the "fatal fence" and the "fool's ornament" that bind the soul in metaphysical death.
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