Book 2: Chapter 12: Poeticize your Presence Summary and Analysis

Here Robert Greene explains to readers another way that fantasy needs to be integrated into a relationship for seduction to work. Also, he once again separates honest and real relationships from seductive romances by asserting to readers that normally, the players will avoid making their partners overly aware of their whole truth.

Reality, he reminds the readers, is to be evaded and escaped. Remember that Greene has strongly encouraged readers towards this by assuring them that unhappy people make excellent targets of seduction but those who are truly content and virtually immune from it.

Poetry has been used in some of the sample chapters earlier in the book. The art itself is a fine element of seduction for those who are suited to either giving or receiving it.

However, making oneself poetic is...