Your love, dear man, is as lovely to me
As sweet soothing oil to the limbs of the restless,
As clean ritual robes to the flesh of Gods,
As fragrance of incense to one coming home
Hot from the smells of the street
It is like nipple-berries ripe in the hand,
Like the tang of grainmeal mingled with beer,
Like wine to the palate when taken with white bread.
While unhurried days come and go,
Let us turn to each other in quiet affection,
Walk in peace to the edge of old age.
And I shall be with you each unhurried day,
A woman given her wish: to see
For a lifetime the face of her lord.
What kinds of inferences do you make about the speaker based on the things to which she compares. Also, How does the concrete language contribute to the speaker's definition of her love?
2007-10-25 18:20:13 · 5 answers · asked by Benjamin L 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Poetry
im only asking again because this question got removed before without no valid reason. so please help. im not trying to get answers. just trying to understand it better.
2007-10-25 18:25:35 · update #1
people,people I didn't write this poem. so please don't removie this question because of nipple-berries!
2007-10-25 19:46:13 · update #2
people,people I didn't write this poem. so please don't removie this question because of nipple-berries!
2007-10-25 19:46:15 · update #3
This sounds to me like it is from 19Th. century England.
If it weren't for these two lines:
Let us turn to each other in quiet affection,
Walk in peace to the edge of old age.
I would assume it was written to praise God, as in 'lord.' However, in 17th., 18th. and 19th. England 'lord' was often used to describe a man of title or wealth, or both. She is comparing her love to smells and tastes that would be appealing to a woman from her time. These lines would mean virtually nothing to a modern woman. Passion, love and desire, to a woman from her time, had to be thinly disguised (between the lines) by comparison to images that might suggest such desires in Victorian England but would seem harmless enough taken as is.
2007-10-25 18:53:30 · answer #1 · answered by Doc Watson 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is soooo nice. I'm a big fan of poetry. I have no idea about your question, I just like the poem. Hope that's OK.
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2007-10-25 18:30:30 · answer #2 · answered by La Sirene 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its a little bit long for this time of day
2007-10-25 19:00:05 · answer #3 · answered by dumplingmuffin 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
nipple-berries?
2007-10-25 19:45:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
totally my type of feeling........ not my words though!!!
2007-10-26 14:12:03 · answer #5 · answered by princess 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋