Adam's Curse

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English

 

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Albert C

 

Date added:

May 1, 2016

 

Level:

University

 

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A

 

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The poem is written in heroic couplets, giving it a regularity of rhythm and rhyme that add to the speaker's gentle candor and create a sense of peacefulness, which Yeats refers to as "an alluring monotony." The first stanza re-creates a conversation between the speaker (Yeats), his love (Maud), and her friend, a ?beautiful mild woman', and immediately introduces key ideas of the inherent difficulty of beauty, and the lack of appreciation for the poetic process and product; ??A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, Out stitching and unstitching has been naught...
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The fact that the entirety of the seemingly simple "Adam's Curse" is written in iambic pentameter attests to this. Yeats asserts that ?to articulate sweet sounds together' is more difficult than the most intense physical labor, yet ?bankers, schoolmasters and clergymen' would consider a poet ?an idler...
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