Thank you for commenting Robert..

Perhaps you noticed that I introduced my critique by saying:
"I read a subtext in “Adam’s Curse,” in which the ‘love triangle’ is a metaphor for Yeats, our incomparable bard, writing a poem about poetry itself. "

I was/am aware of the consequenses of Adam's expulsion from Eden..the whys and therefores, and the relationship/love overtones, lines in the poem. I chose to focus on the warp of poetry although I was cognizant of the weft of the human love relationships that were woven together in this poem. I suspected that more emphasis would be made to the 'love trio' than the strong underpinning of poetry in this forum, so I thought I'd empasize the broader literary context.

I wasn't considering colloquialisms as creating the gap between early 21st century American and the cultivated Irish of the very early 20th century. I had referred to the change in sensibility on both sides of the pond ..the demise of garlands made for the old muses.. The change from daffodils and bluebells to leaves of grass..and then to little red wagons. Soul is outre as befits the demotion of the moon from goddess to mere timekeeper. I think Yeats was well aware of the transitions poetry was to enter beginning before and then in the decades that came after him. Great poems are layered or we wouldn't have so much to say about them.

Thanks for bringing us a poem with some meat on it this week. There is no substitute for genius.
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