I like the idea that it could be either one or both, and that it could still be a poem. Not that I have to glorify all of ED's poems as major works of art.
Sketches are sketches.
Virginity can be a fullness of passion and feeling, not an emptiness, because one has chosen not to misuse or misdirect that which is powerful and important in a given context of creation. The sublime vision comes to the pure and simple soul in a clean and chaste body . . . Milton says that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. I'm arguing that she is an epic poet.