To me it feels like a love story about yourself. The poem being her heart, desire/ passion and her explanation being the rational brain part.
The enticing poems and present day recounts gives an interesting twist to narrative. It’s interwinds both her yearnings and what actually happens to the point where you don’t know which part is true. Did things that she write in her poem actually happen or is it just what she lusts after.
To me it feels like a love story about yourself. The poem being her heart, desire/ passion and her explanation being the rational brain part.
You constantly read on, wanting to know what happens and willing that she has a happy ending.