Milton said of women that the beautiful are "stars which breathe forth seductive flames." Byron says that his woman "walks in beauty like the night." Shakespeare says his woman is "far more temperate" than his oft-cited summer's day.
I say nix. No more of this. I'm looking for a woman who isn't celestial or seasonal. I want one as constant as the force holding the smallest particles of myself together. I'm looking for the atomic forces that push my parts together. I'm looking for an unceasing bond of man to wife.
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I do hope you find what you are seeking.
ReplyDeleteAll three views could be interpreted as the speaker looking for God in woman-form.
ReplyDeleteEntirely true. And, of course, unfair to the writers of yore who never assumed their metaphors to be perfect.
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