05-17-2026, 11:41 PM
The Love-curse and the wall are literal, or actual
Merlin is the wild man, like Enkidu, "tamed" by love as he's rejected by it.
"Defeated" is a term in American literary theory for when a critic gives an assertively backhanded compliment to a poet whose work they consider nonsense. This poem "defeats" my criteria.
The opening cadence is also a throwback to my pome Summer in Autumn.
Also, a cave is both a pace[sic, also place, both work] of origins and a place of delusion. Which includes poetic figments, magic and religion . . . and most especially marriage, as per my poem, Patterns as P # 2.
Merlin is the wild man, like Enkidu, "tamed" by love as he's rejected by it.
"Defeated" is a term in American literary theory for when a critic gives an assertively backhanded compliment to a poet whose work they consider nonsense. This poem "defeats" my criteria.
The opening cadence is also a throwback to my pome Summer in Autumn.
Also, a cave is both a pace[sic, also place, both work] of origins and a place of delusion. Which includes poetic figments, magic and religion . . . and most especially marriage, as per my poem, Patterns as P # 2.