Are You the New Person, Drawn Toward Me?
Are You the New Person, Drawn Toward Me? - meaning Summary
Questioning Intimacy and Illusion
The speaker addresses a newcomer attracted to him and issues a candid warning against idealization. He questions whether the listener expects effortless love, unwavering fidelity, or unblemished friendship, and challenges assumptions based on his outward charm. The poem insists the apparent self may be a façade or illusion rather than a stable, heroic core. It foregrounds caution, skepticism, and the gap between projection and reality in intimate encounters.
Read Complete AnalysesARE you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning—I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal? Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover? Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy’d satisfaction? Do you think I am trusty and faithful? Do you see no further than this façade—this smooth and tolerant manner of me? Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man? Have you no thought, O dreamer, that it may be all maya, illusion?
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