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An Expression of Excitement and Pleasure in Marriage

Essay Instructions:

Focus on the next six poems (#58, A Simple Peasant; #91, You with the Collar; #109, In the Garden Is A Peach-Tree; #112, Cutting Hardwood; #113, Big Rat; #124, The Cloth-Plant Grew). You can pick one or more poems to analyze and exercise a close reading.
Prompt: What objects are used, what is human-nature relationship, and what emotions are aroused and relationships (romantic, social, or political one) are built.
Title: For the practice of the mid-term, try to come up with a title for this week’s response. (It could end with a question mark or just a keyword of your response.) It will be a good way to identify your thesis and focus your argument.
Notes For how to access the book and find the poems:
There are three documents that are uploaded :
1) the required readings from The Book of Songs;
2) an older version of The Book of Songs in digital format, and
3) an index to help you locate the required readings in the digital version.
How to use the index:
The numbers on the column all refer to poem order (NOT the page number).
The column of Mao” is for the latest version; the column of “My number” is for the uploaded/older version. For example, on the required reading list, you will find that #1 “The Ospreys Cry” on the latest version is numbered as #87 in the uploaded digital version.

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You with the Collar:
An Expression of Excitement and Pleasure in Marriage
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[date]In the poem, You with the Collar from the Book of Songs, subjectivity, and submissiveness are evident in the way the poem is constructed. There is a hint of a superior who is well-loved by the subject. Although we may assume that the poem pictures a good relationship between a superior and a subject, the category in which the poem belongs says what the relationship is about. The poem is in the category of Marriage and it makes the poem sensible in some way. Let us discuss further the poem's construction.
The poem uses the southernwood plant that matches it with dew. Southernwood plant is known to stand drought and for its fragrance. In the early times, women would hold it as a bouquet to attend church meetings (Svanberg & de Vahl, 2020). This gives us proof of why southernwood is associated with the poem that talks about marriage. It signifies the woman who has been waiting to see her husband who she refers to as her "Lord". Along with the southernwood is the dew that "drenches" it, "lies heavy upon it", "dabbles" it, and "soaks" it. The dew may signify the worries that the woman has endured while her husband is away. The dew gives her a heavyweight every passing day because of the new dews that fall upon her.
One object, which signifies the husband's identity as a warrior and a husband, is seen at the last part. His "chariot-bells" and "bride-bells" chiming implies his ...
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