World Literature before 1600- Exam #1 – Flashcards
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Greek and Roman culture did this to Egyptian literature.
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They eclipsed the culture and eventually phased out the use of hieroglyphics and the works weren't able to be translated until the 19th century.
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New Kingdom (1500-1000 BC)
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very few people could read in this era; most story telling was verbal; poems were short; mainly focused on love poems and everyday things
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Types of poems you would find in the 'New Kingdom' in Egypt
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city life and social gatherings less focus on the elite and monuments more likely to read a poem about 2 people that could not be together/connect rather than an ode to a monument
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The Beginning of the Song That Diverts the Heart
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3 dynamic speakers; love triangle;voice of the girl lover knows that her boyfriend has another girlfriend; speaker is the side chick, but wants to be the main; uses bird catching metaphors to tell bf that
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Metaphor: bird catching
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cage=love balm for catching= patience metaphor for love bird lime= sticky substance spread on a tree limb, wait for a bird to land on it and become trapped the male lover is 'anointed in myrrh' meaning that he is caught (by the other girl) and the speaker is trying to catch him for herself
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Am I not here with you?
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Modern is the sense that people can relate to it still to this day
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Where does the speaker's insecurities in "Am I not here with you?" come from? Or the Scene?
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The two of them are in bed after having sex and the guy wants to leave
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"Why don't you embrace me?"
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girl thinks that the guy is making up excuses so that he can leave, and the girl anticipates this suggesting that this has happened before, and she answers her own questions proving that
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What is the speaker's final statement in the work?
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the gist is that it is better to be in his arms than to be anywhere else
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Who wrote this type of poem?
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young people that were still living with parents at home, who are of age to have sex, but aren't established adults
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My God, My Lotus
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3 movements (1-girl; 2&3-young man)
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Why does "my god" seem like a strange term of endearment for your s/o?
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the use of God idealizes the lover such as the romance of chivalry, you're putting the lover on a pedestal; it is removed from you, higher than you
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What is different about this poem?
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This work has 2 speakers, it contains a conversation; and both of them see the other as a god
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I wish I were her Nubian Maid
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the speaker is a young dude
