Rhetoric--open style?

-- "Ah! que n'ai je mis bas tout un noeud de vipères,
Plutôt que de nourrir cette dérision!
Maudite soit la nuit aux plaisirs éphémères
Où mon ventre a conçu mon expiation!

                   Baudelaire, "Benedicition"

 

 

We should mark well the difference (assuming it makes a difference) between rhetoric that seeks mastery, invested in transcendent presence, confident of its own transparency to itself and rhetoric willing to cede power, recognizing the ubiquity of immanent withdrawal, and with a humility commensurate with an appreciation of the contingency of its own logic and self-persuasion.

Without overstating the case, is the second style more open in that it intends a condition of greater openness and is more mindful of its embattlement?

(inspired by Levi Bryant's The Democracy of Objects)