... is confused about how to approach that woman. He lacks self-confidence and feels insecured. He is worried about the inadequacies he has, and thus afraid of standing up and express his feelings. The poem starts with fairly concrete physical setting of a cityscape and then moves to interiors like women's arms in the lamplight, coffee spoons and fireplaces. At the end ... theorist Terry Eagleton defines Marxist criticism this way: "Marxist criticism is not merely a 'sociology of literature', concerned with how novels get published and whether they mention the working class. Its aim is to e...

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