More Pleasant Adventures (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: John Ashbery
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Poem
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Love or romance, Marriage, Divorce
“More Pleasant Adventures,” a poem from A Wave (1984), is one of those small performances by Ashbery that tempt critics into presuming that it stands for something other than itself, sometimes with preposterous consequences. On the surface it seems simple enough. The first two lines, for example, with the idea of the wedding cake looming behind them, are very smart, very succinctly sophisticated in their summing-up of the way in which the romance settles down to living day by day. The following metaphors, tracing the gradual lack of mutual interest, round out the first verse...
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