From: "Dominic Fox" <[log in to unmask]>
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I think Donne's pome might actually have been about sex, though. I'm
not convinced that Marvell's really is - you could argue that the
seduction scenario is just the MacGuffin for an exercise in
metaphysical brow-beating - although that bit about tearing one's
pleasures with rough strife through
<Oh *shite* Dom, you ought to be ashamed of yourself -- "thorough"
[sic].>
the iron gates of life brings to
mind the old condom vending machine graffito (modified): if this is
sex, it sounds extremely painful.
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Bottom line is Marvell's is more effective as a real-life seduction poem.
{Bite it and C#.}
Problem with using "The Flea" in this arena is it's simply too screamingly
funny.
Rong Kontex.
Pic the Merle
[And that's before we get to the point of identifying the bits of Coy that
are straight lifts from the Greek Anthology.
Da Pedant.]
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