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Originally Posted by Matt Q
At surface-level, part of what I'm hoping to get across is that the poem occurs after God has intervened to save Daniel from the lions. And the lions (or their jaws) in his dream are asking him / taunting him about the "new beasts" he now faces. I'd be interested to know if that came across. Maybe the new title works against this. I'm not sure.
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Led—and apparently misled—by an updated understanding of “intervention,” what I got was “Daniel in the Lion’s Den” as “Daniel in Detox” (Nemo’s persuasive reading). It never entered my head that the intervention was God’s and that live lions had preceded their bone jaws. “Now” and “new” were clues I failed to pick up on. The new title has the advantage of being less (mis)leading, but without getting me any closer to your intended meaning. Happily, my loss of a clear focus doesn’t detract from my appreciation of the poem, which I like quite a lot.