10-08-2013, 04:47 PM
(09-19-2013, 04:11 AM)Erthona Wrote: Hi erthona,
sorry I didont come back to this. Dido. Bloody Dido. This legend caused great debate at my school. Most of us thought she was loopy and probably relied on a good backer when she upped Carthage...why did she top herself? Did no one just say aw...the hell with it back then. My least credible character...
Great Dido, Love inflamed your passion,
then caused the object of your affliction
to flee, over the sea, away from you, secretly.
Feeble Dido, not being able to stand the ache of his loss,
you put a knife through it; then you crossed. I find this interesting but refuse to google it. After her husband got done in by her brother whose name escapes me didn't SHE flee to Africa? I never understood the dramatic gesture of knife/funeral pyre. Why? I want this piece to tell me. Now you will say..what funeral pyre? So now you know how I feel. Not enough informed opinion ( and you are not short of that) in the piece.
Did this bisection split you from your pain,
as it removed you from your mortal frame?
Exquisite Love made poor Dido go insane.
How delicious, how apropos, how…loving! Nice stuff.Really nice....but just too rhetorical to make poem. Leaves me in vaccuo.
Well you did ask, didont you?
©2013 -Erthona