Rhina,
If I were to approach the poem as a psychiatrist might, I'd take the epigraph as indicative of the conscious intentions of the poet; i.e., to him/her this poem is "simply" a poem of praise, even of admiration. I understand (and see) the udnercurrents you've revealed, but I doubt the poet "intended" them. I think they tell us a lot about the poet's unresolved feelings about the teacher, what she represents, but it's not my sense that they are consciously a "part of the poem."
I could be wrong, of course....
(robt)
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