Monday, February 21, 2005
On Love
This reading was definitely a nice change of pace- short and sweet. The author used a lot of figurative language for example "I have found my language misunderstood like one in a distant and savage land." From what I understood, he was expressing his dissapointment in the love department and that he hasn not found any one he can connect with. I enjoy creating my own interpretations on the occasional obcure phrase. He wants to find someone that he can think with, have an intellectual exchange, in his words mind children. When your alone you look for this connection in the worlds around you until you can find your "antitype"- your other half. I think that the author adds an element of fate in this. Fate is one of the main themes I found burried under all the metonymy.
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I couldn't exactly tell what Shelley's point was here. Had he already found his true love, and he wanted to define this for everyone else? Was he detailing how difficult, if not impossible it was to find love? It seemed like it could be interpreted both optimistically or cynically, so it would be interesting to know the author's personal history to read deeper into his true intentions.
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