I haven't read the poem either, but I think I'm much more inclined to support your interpretation -- both on semantic and philosophical grounds. You might not care much for his socialistic worldview, but you might appreciate some of the similar ideas advanced in Erich Fromm's Art of Loving. I personally couldn't get past his Freudian anti-BDSM and anti-gay attitudes -- which I admit were reasonable for his time, the 1950's -- but he's got a lovely thesis about modern people tend to treat love like a commodity that you accumulate, but it's really more like a skill that you must devote yourself to practice in order for it to be very meaningful...
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Date: 2007-08-05 08:47 pm (UTC)