One character in this poem is described as oozing "the lethal sweat of crude self-satisfaction". This poem comments that grea
One character in this poem is described as oozing "the lethal sweat of crude self-satisfaction". This poem comments that great men who lack the capacity for suffering call women derogatory names in order to sound tougher and clever men can always get a response from women. This poem describes a "hard-boiled" man who upsets his wife by ridiculing Cyrano de Bergerac, and the poet later states that Cyrano's chivalry lives on. Stating that we go about "discarding hearts as though they're last year's fashions", FTP, name this poem that asks that "God grant us grace that we may know the pain of fruitless longing", a work of Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
One character in this poem is described as oozing "the lethal sweat of crude self-satisfaction".
{Unrequited Love}