 Theodor W. Adorno 's Jargon of Authenticity ( 1964 ) suggested that the poems are essentially evil : " The fact that the neoromantic lyric sometimes behaves like the jargon [ of authenticity ] , or at least timidly readies the way for it , should not lead us to look for the evil of the poetry simply in its form . It is not simply grounded , as a much too innocent view might maintain , in the mixture of poetry and prose . The evil , in the neoromantic lyric , consists in the fitting out of the words with a theological overtone , which is belied by the condition of the lonely and secular subject who is speaking there : religion as ornament . " Adorno further believed the poems reinforced the German value of commitment that supported a cultural attraction towards the principles of Nazism . 
