Thank you for your thoughtful response Jean. I agree, the changes from the song to the poem show a poetic improvement. You have helped me appreciate this poem even more. Thank you! And I also agree that Cohen was certainly not declaring to be an evangelical Christian. From what I know if he claimed ...

Hello Dennis,

and thank you for your response. I think your suggestion makes good sense. But mostly I am looking for background information on the meaning of the line.

Thanks,

Dave

Does anyone have any background information for the lines, "meeting Christ and reading Marx ... go tell the young messiah what happens to the heart"? In the poem version in The Flame it is, "meeting Jesus, reading Marx ... go tell the young Messiah what happens to the heart." Tha...