Essay Comparing Adam And Eve By Tony Hoagland

Emotional Situations “Adam and Eve” and “Porphyria’s Lover” both have a unique story between a man and a woman. The poem written by Tony Hoagland, “Adam and Eve”, explains about a man showing anger towards the woman and how he wanted to hurt her. Hoagland wrote, “she held her mile white hand agitatedly / over the entrance to her body and said No, / and my brain burst into flame” (14-16), which gives the readers the idea of how the man was furious. Another line Hoagland wrote, “I wanted to punch her right in the mouth and that’s the truth” (1) explains how the man would use violence towards the woman and that he reveals his honesty of how he feels about her. In the middle of the poem, the man became curious about if he actually meant to hurt the woman who he became very uncertain where Hoagland quoted, “Is a man just an animal, and is a woman not an animal?” (26). The man began to ask questions about how men are the animals, which he meant men are more aggressive and fierce and that women are define as human beings meaning they are more passionate and reasonable. Hoagland’s last two lines, “Until we say the truth, there
/ As long as there is desire, we will not be safe” (63-63), explains that until the woman knows that he wants to hurt her then she cannot feel safe, however, as long as the man wants to hurt the woman then