Literature Entry Week 2
Campion’s poem ‘Fain Would I Wed’ is interesting because he assumes the voice and perspective of a female speaker. Despite it being written by a male i find that it has accurately described some timeless issues that women face. I really engaged with the poem, especially the line “Oft have I been wooed and praised, but never could be moved.” I believe that this is a very realistic issue that Campion mentions, and it is relevant to our current study as it relates to the desire or need to ‘connect’ with somebody, the search to find and understand the meaning of a love that is true.
Here’s a short poem inspired by ‘Fain would I wed’, somewhat expressing my own woes…
Confessedly true
A slightly massive problem ever-present within me,
My tongue is never guarded, and it comes at no small fee.
If love were on a course, and nearing to be true,
It would surely be disheartened, by my impulsive word spew.
Whether a serpentine whip lashing out its frustrations,
Or my inconceivable complexity of too many contemplations,
Somehow inevitably it will all go askew,
Another failure’s imprint, like a scathing tattoo.
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All these poems we have been examining are rather contemplative! I’m not really ‘poetic’ but i enjoyed writing this! Some of the words have slight connotations or double meanings.
By Janelle :)
I commented on Nancy's week two entry!
Check out her wonderful poem, here's the link:
http://nancy-m.livejournal.com/19108.html?view=28068#t28068
This is my comment:
Hey Nancy,
I agree with your observations on Queen Elizabeth’s poem ‘On Monsieur's Departure’. It’s beautiful how you tied in the themes from ‘Venus and Adonis’ such as Venus’ ‘pride’. I agree that this would have been of great concern to Queen Elizabeth. Pride, fear, doubt, her duty… I really empathize with her, even though i cannot begin to understand the depth of the complex struggles she must have faced, both internally and externally. I find myself really interested in this poem, and have read it quite a number of times trying to gauge how she might have truly felt. Despite being a monarch, she was still a person, a woman, vulnerable. I believe her poetry is indicative of how she was taking steps into discovering that she could not always remain raised upon her royal pedestal, that her raw human qualities were ever-presently there, despite her reluctance to let herself be immersed in them at times.
In your entry you wrote: “love is truth and truth is beauty” I would have to agree that the two lock together like puzzle pieces, however what concerned me in my own contemplations is what “beauty” means to different people. Here is where opinions differ and where people can become enchanted, confused, misguided. Beauty to me is a feeling- like an orb of light, unique, extraordinary, warming, safe. Yet, beauty can also be deception. We all remember reading ‘Nevsky Prospekt’?
Great entry Nancy, I absolutely loved your poem! It caught my attention and I think it is really well written, everything ties in so well!
This is my favourite Stanza:
“Fifteen years she felt so tall
‘Faithful’ was her favorite word
She then asked of the good Lord,
‘ Test my love- I’ll show you pearls;
‘For temptation’s not my weakness;
Adam’s something I’ll not miss.’”
Take care,
Janelle x