brooding over the rationality of mankind the sculptures in rodin's the gates of hell are descending into the abyss it's a depiction of what say man was to attempt in his work to put a voice to the silence of the dead and tormented after hour shits. while rodin takes us through the gates of hell same man stands in the shadow of the scar in the horror of the century that claud itself into memory the poet pleaded with language for words to claw at the terrible world as he put it words that could establish their own world beyond. no matter what he wrote ultimately he could only legitimize it with his own despair only those who have lost the world can understand its troops.