The dialogue between the Poets includes discussion of the general notion of the Soul. Novalisregardsit as universal type of Infinite Nature repeating the ancient philosophical concept of cyclical time. The antithesis was based on the idea of time neither linear nor circular.Sometimes Lamartine regards time linearlike a river, wich always moves, and like a lake, whenitis calm.In the same timeLamartineillustrates ideas of nature and seasons symbolizing synonyms of human being, birth, decline, old age and death