When stories are told they often become a significant part of popular culture and then left to be glorified by people and told in many different ways. When this happens you have a contemporary rendition of a story, as with the Greek myth "Orpheus and Eurydice" and the poem "Eurydice", but the poem "Eurydice" by Edwin Honig is not a contemporary rendition of the Greek myth "Orpheus and Eurydice" featured in Edith Hamilton's novel Mythology because there is no distinction of character. There's no way to distinguish from what point of view the poem was written, there is no clarification of gender for the narrator of the poem, and the is no description in the relationship shared by the characters of the poem.

Throughout this poem there are many things that...