04-06-2012, 07:58 AM
[quote='Erthona' pid='93844' dateline='1333658775']
This is a sonnet in the same sense that London's wolf was a wolf. Or maybe a tectak sonnet, which generally seems to avoid iambic pentameter as if it were work
As to not sleeping together... well, it was a time--in literature--when manly virtue overrode manly erection ...of course that was manly* in literature Aside from the fact that they had no form of birth control and did not wish to be ostracized from society by producing a bastard; plus the idea of a man refraining from imposing his ardor upon the weaker women in a physical way as being a sign of true love was still extant. After all, this was not Henry Miller!
Dale
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Jack was a oyster pirate, a Socialist, a gold prospector
in the Yukon, and a suicide. The rest of his life has
not been mentioned.
Thanks for the comment.
V
This is a sonnet in the same sense that London's wolf was a wolf. Or maybe a tectak sonnet, which generally seems to avoid iambic pentameter as if it were work
As to not sleeping together... well, it was a time--in literature--when manly virtue overrode manly erection ...of course that was manly* in literature
Aside from the fact that they had no form of birth control and did not wish to be ostracized from society by producing a bastard; plus the idea of a man refraining from imposing his ardor upon the weaker women in a physical way as being a sign of true love was still extant. After all, this was not Henry Miller!Dale
**
Jack was a oyster pirate, a Socialist, a gold prospector
in the Yukon, and a suicide. The rest of his life has
not been mentioned.
Thanks for the comment.
V