Friday, January 3, 2003

Adam's Complaint Comments

Rating: 2.8

Some people,
no matter what you give them,
still want the moon.
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Denise Levertov
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Koffi B Sossou 09 May 2024

These kinds of people are never grateful. Your life against theirs, they will always want moire.

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Koffi B Sossou 09 May 2024

A very nice poem which depicts gluttony. Unfortunately, our societies are full of these kind of people.

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John Evans-klock 03 March 2012

Like Tennyson's Ulysses it throws down a challenge, but this time with wry skepticism of the urge for more, for the moon, for the roads. Adam's Complaint is located in primal imagery. Our hunger is recognized as inexplicable, our longings as ungrateful and impossible. But recognized, nonetheless, like the moon in the bottom of the well.

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