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  • on Of course I love you by Sappho, on August 23, 2004
    It makes me wonder if back in the day old women married to younger men were looked down upon. I'm assuming it was so because even now it is perfectly ok to have a 64-year old man dating a 32-year old, but God forbid for an older woman to be with a much younger guy.
    I feel so bad about this icky double standard.
    Powerful piece.
    ~Anastasia

  • on The Great Oak Tree by William Schwenck Gilbert, on July 19, 2004
    The repetition and the rhyme scheme make this a very lighthearted and song-like piece. Although, of course, this is a tragedy, a beautiful love story between a pretty little flower and a great oak tree. The closing repetitive lines are much like
    "For never was a story of more woe
    Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
    from "Romeo and Juliet". At least they reminded me of it.
    Of course it is assumed that a fragile flower is a female and a great strong macho tree is male. I guess William S Gilbert never lived to see the women's revolution.
    ~Anastasia

  • on Duty Surviving Self-Love, The Only Sure Friend Of Declining Life. A Soliloquy by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, on July 19, 2004
    I guess this is the kind of poem you take one line at a time in order to get the most out of it.
    "Unchanged within, to see all changed without,
    Is a blank lot and hard to bear, no doubt."
    I guess this talks about seeing the world/their life change and not adapting to that change because you are still the same person you were before the world/your life changed.
    "Hadst thou withheld thy love or hid thy light
    In selfish forethought of neglect and slight."
    This seems a bit preachy as I understand it, but the message is hidden within euphemisms and vagueness. All in all this is an interesting advice-poem that tells you how to live your life.
    ~Anastasia

  • on Sonnet IV: Bright Star of Beauty by Michael Drayton, on July 19, 2004
    This is a well-written sonnet, with a lot of euphonious and harmonious diction. i like the concept of Time not being able to invade faith which makes faith stronger. Then again Drayton contradicts himself by capitalizing Time and not capitalizing faith. Usually abstractions as time and faith are emphasized in sonnets, but Drayton chooses to emphasize time and not faith which is rather confusing. Maybe I am reading too deeply into it. all in all, this was a lovely sonnet.
    ~Anastasia