Spoken Into Creation, By Ethel Song

While the poems focus on love they also reveal the role of women in a sense of what was and was not acceptable in the ancient days. She emphasizes the importance and power of love through people and actions. The way she sees love is quite different than what most people would think. In other words it is not necessarily affectionate. Her poems tell us how love comes with many consequences, sadness, depression, anger, and even how love is lost.

The poem talks about a woman who is lost in love, She expresses the feeling and emotion of true love.

The 14-line poem opens with a statement, proclaiming that it is not the purpose of the voice to prevent the 'marriage of true minds'. Basically, the voice is taking over what is to follow, in which the voice outlines their order of what true love actually is. This is something that is put into aspect by the following statement, 'love is not love, which changes when it changes finds' (116 l.3); this outlines the voice's main purpose that true love is steady and unchanging, it is not something that shifts back and forth or bends in the face of outside forces. However it is not only the impact of the outside world that are unable to bring forth, and as the

Then the author proceeds to slightly alter the tone of the poem by suddenly adding personal emotions, such as love, the lines “Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems” seems to say that he believes in love, yet he can only dream about it. The next few lines “To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;” mentions the things that he dreams of, yet can’t receive. This final line just shows how he has lost his faith in this world and realizes that there is no peace that will ever occur in this endless cycle.

The poet expresses the true love he has for his beloved. But the sad part is that this love is

This poem is broken in to three distinct parts even though it does not contain multiple stanzas. The first section is from line one to line six. Within this section the initial idea of the poem is presented. This idea that ‘’love is not all ‘’ completely contrasts standard belief. Edna St. Vincent Millay compares love to all the basic life needs including food, water, and shelter. Millay is being practical and logical which are not words usually associated with love. In lines five and six Millay talks about how ‘’love can not fill the thickened lung with breath, nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone.’’ Not only does this provide evidence for her initial claim, it also further dwindles the universal idea that love is endlessly powerful.

Not saying that this poem is easy to interpret, however, I do like how it is meant to be read more than once for one to get a full interpretation that could also change overtime from gathered reflection and one’s personal feelings at the time when reading the poem. The Song of Songs to me was definitely risqué and I can see why one would not want their children to read the love poem, since some can read between the lines finding its leading poise towards speaking of sexual encounters. Although it was hard for me to understand I do take from reading it multiple times that in some stories sex is being done or in the process of being performed within different marriages and premarital. The author also goes into how the Song of Songs can also be applied to not only the love between a woman and a man, but also between humanity and God. From the poem I also take that this is somewhat an example for others to follow, on the rules one should follow by not following in the footsteps of the characters stories in the poem. Rather to teach the readers in any way they see it, but mostly teaching about how its ones choice to make the right decisions in their lives. For example in the paragraph, “Many Waters Cannot Quench Love: Desire and the Song of Songs,” I distinguish that the poem is saying the decision when searching for the right mate can be hard and come with many obstacles when choosing the right one but it’s also about waiting patiently to find your true love. There is no simple answer to this, because a reader may interpret this poem in many ways, and it has since the Song of Songs has been studied by many with still all different messages being taken from

I find the sentiments to be ambiguous, as well. While my first instinct was that it’s a woman speaking about her lover/partner, that’s not concrete, either. When speaking of a relationship with such conflicting feelings of intimacy, love, or closeness (whatever one’s take on the poem is), that isn’t only found between lovers. It’s can also be had in the occasionally damaging love/hate relationships that can occur between adult children and parents, as well as other intimate relationships.

“The voice of the poem is love and patience and hope and forgiveness, and that’s what

The meaning of this poem is the speaker is so in love with her that he is incomplete.The techniques help bring out the meaning by using imagery phrases that show the longing for the women

My interpretation of this piece of literature is that is was simply wonderful, it was thought out very well and the writer was very clear of their feelings and of their thoughts to this one person they were speaking about. It really goes to show that feelings overtake everything, and that when a love is so powerful, everybody is able to see it. Not just the writer and the person they are talking about, if you use your words clearly enough

The poem shouts the conflict, attachment. As we can see too much dependence on one person can be overwhelmingly vague and counter back because one is too naïve to do stuff on their own. “Attachment,” according to Merriam Webster dictionary is a strong feeling of affection or loyalty for someone or something. And we see this often in this poem, being overly hyped up towards a person. Now by analyzing the poem we can say that the speaker is a woman talking to a man possibly a husband and a wife again showing the woman’s belief of attachment towards her husband. For instance, “what will I do” (3) shows doubtless, and seems the words coming out of the woman, granting emotions and fear of what is to happen to her once he is gone. Thus, its also tells us the devotion the speaker has towards her husband, the value in him how he is important to her.

The way that the poem is written is difficult to understand. The poem was written long back in time so it is has advanced words that a normal person would not understand without a dictionary.

Every line of this poem expresses his commitment and love for her. In stanza 6, line 24, “To live and die for thee” shows a lot of commitment, him being willing to die for her. In stanza 2, “A heart as soft, a heart as kind, a heart as sound and free, As in the whole world thou canst find, That heart I’ll give to thee” he is saying she will never find someone who would love and treat her better; very romantic.

Love is another obvious theme seen throughout this poem. Although the word love is never once used he gives the reader a since of deep commitment with his use of other words like “half broken hearted” or “thy vows are all broken”. (66) He makes his love for her seem to linger or end abruptly that’s why he still can’t hear her name without grief or shame. The fact that he never told his peers about his affair ‘they knew not I knew thee” (66) shows the speaker knew it was wrong and is recognizing how shameful his actions were as well as his relationship with this lady. Love is the primary focus of this poem even if it was lost. There was a love there that impacted him then, and as he wrote this poem. He uses a strong grammatic to help get his point across for example “a shudder comes o’er me why weren’t thou so dear” (66) The speaker is able to empathize with his audience by writing about obstacles everyone deals with at one point or another.