Asciasis Is a Movement of Self-Purgation

Bloom is a movement or self-purgation which intends the attainment of a state of solitude bloom takes the term asciasis from the pre-socratic shamans like empedocles. This is where the poet yields up a part of his own human and imaginative endowment so as to separate himself from others including his precursor. Bloom reminds us that forgetting is anything but liberating because every forgotten precursor becomes a giant of the imagination.