His answer is quite explicit. The poet solves the problem by casting doubt upon the facts which threaten his hypothesis. He reduces them into phenomena, in the sense of phantoms begotten by the human intellect upon unknown and unknowable realities.
"Thus much at least is clearly understood—
Of power does Man possess no particle:
Of knowledge—just so much as shows that still
It ends in ignorance on every side."A
A: Francis Furini.
He is aware of the phenomena of his own consciousness,
"My soul, and my soul's home,
This body ";
but he knows not whether "things outside are fact or feigning." And he heeds little, for in either case they