10-06-2013, 02:27 PM
I think I get where you're going with it -- although the Athena reference is a worry, since she was a virgin goddess! Absence makes the heart grow fonder, and all that.
I am not generally a fan of love poetry, because I want it to tell me why THIS love is so much more important than every other love in history -- and the best way to do that is through concrete images that offer the reader little voyeuristic insights rather than sweeping abstractions that don't give us too much to sink our teeth into. Poetry reading is a vicarious sport. We like to watch
I am not generally a fan of love poetry, because I want it to tell me why THIS love is so much more important than every other love in history -- and the best way to do that is through concrete images that offer the reader little voyeuristic insights rather than sweeping abstractions that don't give us too much to sink our teeth into. Poetry reading is a vicarious sport. We like to watch
It could be worse