ENGB04H3 Lecture : lecture notes on poems
Document Summary
Sonnet 130: i magery (1): roses are red: of roses and hearts. The speaker marks his sincerity by rejecting them. Sands o" life: the image is of an hourglass. Tango ix: but what word was i t . The speaker is a woman recalling an episode with a lover when she was still a girl and living at home. The family had recently moved but her suitor from the old town simply appeared one day. He gave her eleven roses, ten white and one red. Her mother thinks that the one red rose has meaning: that it means the daughter lost her virginity. She can smell sex on her daughter (l. 35). The daughter feels caught between forces: her lover who refuses to tell her things and her mother who insists on knowing things. According to greek myth, hades, god of the underworld or hell, fell in love with. Persephone and kidnapped her and took her with him below the earth.
