Louis Untermeyer's "Eve Speaks" was written about Eve's thoughts, many years after she was forced to leave Eden. While both poems are derived from the same biblical root, they offer

different interpretations of man's fall through Eve's motives, her attitude toward Adam,

and her attitude toward her sin. In Paradise Lost, Eve was tricked by Satan, who assumed

the form of a serpent, into eating from the Tree of Knowledge. Satan had whispered into

her ear when she was asleep, and when he spoke to her later, he used his cunning to mislead

He ended, and his words replete with guile

Into her heart too easy entrance won.

Another glaring dissimilarity between the two poems was the in which Eve perceived Adam.

something more than joy, Beyond perfection, greater than singing peace And tranquil

Yet rung of his persuasive words, impregned

the apple with Adam, one of her reasons for not sharing was so that she could be his

Which leaves us naked thus, of honor void,

equal, if not his superior. After she gave the apple to Adam, her demeanor turned even

Louis Untermeyer gave Eve a more domineering position; In "Eve Speaks", Eve acts for the

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