All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had.so reading poems isn’t just about counting syllables or tum-tumming along in your head, but can be a kind of thinking, or a way of bringing abstractions to life and testing them against experience.
As Vendler’s critical readings unfold, you often want to turn back to the poem, because she will always notice things you have missed, so the book is a very good advertisement for the old technology of the codex: to do reading as rethinking it helps to keep a finger on the page with the poem on it.
The poem narrates an intense, poetic love story between a woman and her lover through a series of sensual dialogues, dreams, metaphors, and warnings to the "daughters of Jerusalem" not to awaken love before its time.
Modern scholarship tends to hold that the lovers in the Song are unmarried,[2][3] which accords with its ancient Near East context.[4] The women of Jerusalem form a chorus to the lovers, functioning as an audience whose participation in the lovers' erotic encounters facilitates the participation of the reader.[5]
Most scholars view the Song of Songs as erotic poetry celebrating human love, not a divine metaphor, with some seeing influences from fertility cults and wisdom literature. Its authorship, date, and origins remain uncertain, with scholars debating its unity, structure, and possible influences from Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greek love poetry.
( JPG's of female IDF soldiers mooning )
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