Elusive Mr. Right Comments

Unlike most dabbles these days, this poem seems conversant with classic lit and myth and bends them to her purpose. The metaphor of the male/female divided self, alluded to by Aristophanes, dates to Plato, whom Yeats uses as theme, and suffuses the depth psychology of Carl Jung's concepts of anima and animus. The end of all art, classic poetics asserts, is to educate and delight. Lois Read understands that.