tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7389932094231362545.post8650599770606967051..comments2023-09-22T02:55:14.540-07:00Comments on APPOSITIONS: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature & Culture: EVENT C: An Collins E-Variorumwhowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09061175252438502627noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7389932094231362545.post-78823800442963314312009-01-20T05:04:00.000-08:002009-01-20T05:04:00.000-08:00nice postnice postAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7389932094231362545.post-21025916297851162402008-02-13T10:38:00.000-08:002008-02-13T10:38:00.000-08:00Scriptural sources include:Stanza 1: Song of Solom...Scriptural sources include:<BR/>Stanza 1: Song of Solomon 2:11 'loe, the winter is past, the raine is ouer, and gone' (AV 1611). The garden imagery is in keeping with imagery elsewhere in the book, but the reader is jarred by the sterility in stanza 3. <BR/>Stanza 8: Corrupt seeds recalls the Parable of the Sower in Mark 4:1-20, Matthew 13:1-23, and Luke 8:1-15.<BR/>The imagery/allegory of the garden of the soul is common in Roman Catholic tradition (see Henry Hawkins SJ 'Partheneia Sacra', 1633). It can also be found in Metaphysical poetry (such as Herbert's 'Paradise').John Floodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08696685882746784466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7389932094231362545.post-36622451188443598372008-02-05T05:52:00.000-08:002008-02-05T05:52:00.000-08:00Normally, when figuring one's life as seasons of t...Normally, when figuring one's life as seasons of the year, you start with spring as your childhood, summer as your prime, autumn, and then winter. The speaker figures her infancy as cold winter, and she's already seemingly quite old - past child-bearing, even? - by the time she reaches the end of April. Surprising?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com