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Adam's Curse

(3) Base Camp

Though the speaker believes poetry should take a lot of work, he believes that the lines themselves are supposed to look effortless. Apparently Yeats agrees. It's a relatively smooth poem to read, with few perplexing words or stumbling blocks in our way and only an occasional symbol to ponder.