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Thesis
statement Throughout Songs to Joannes, the female speaker is struggling hard to do the mapping of her desire, expectation, and experience in the realm of Love but however instead of a complete, coherent journey and a fructuous end, she finds herself in a no man's land where the experienced self with coloured glass can only play with her realization, taking bitter advantages of this never-reaching non-place. |
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The possible mapping |
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lust/desire |
expectation/transcendence |
experience |
love/Love |
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river/saliva |
wings |
coloured glass/conclusion |
When we lifted/Our eye-lids on Love/A cosmos/Of coloured voices/And laughing honey (P9) |
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honey/milk |
lights |
I (Eye) |
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driveling/running water |
welding/conjoin/cleaving/melt |
sun/night |
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green |
I (Eye) |
battle/carnage/irate battle/carnage |
Shuttle-cock and battle-door/A little pink-love/And feathers are strewn (P10) |
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Moon |
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clock-work machenism |
Seldom Trying for Love/ Fantasy dealt them out as gods/Two or three men looked only human (P15) |
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voices/tongue |
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Nothing/Nirvana/vacuum |
Love---the preeminent littérateur (P34) |
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raylessness |
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white/colourless/static |
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evolve |
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The feminine, fertilizing sexuality is always running, growing and calling |
The hope of transcendence to a new light through conjunction of two or three is forced to be deduced to the possible change and impossible fulfillment of I (Eye), "curled to the solitaire" |
The bellows of experience are complicated, multi-dimensional and violent but at the core of it may be a cruel nothingness, raylessness vacuum where "there were no more tongue" and the resonance becomes an empty echo. However, no matter how white or colourless these metaphysical extremities are, the physical, the passionate, the "proto-plasm" will always push and bother us... |
Therefore, Love, which is supposed to fruit from desire, experience and transcendence, becomes a really outstanding second-rate literary writer that imposes on itself a lot of great interests, fantasies and commitments but never can realize, fulfill those greatness itself. |
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Conclusion |
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