Pitt-Rivers Thories

Poem & Couple Connections

The narrator is looking for the couple when he goes to the Pitt-Rivers to think about some things. He is disappointed not to find them there. Then he talks about the primitive cultures who didn't understand much and went to war with each other all the time. He comments that things have gotten better, despite the fact that we still have war. Nobody wants to remain a child forever. He then returns to the subject of looking for the couple.

This looks like a chiastic structure, in which the two outside references to the couple surround the key idea of "not remaining a child." The narrator then goes on to describe his poem, which is a conversation between a child and an adult.