Confessional Poetry Biography
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The first part of the poem, as translated by Treharne, seems to refer to a period in 1553 when Cooke, under the reign of Mary I, was sent to the Tower of London and then exiled. It reads:
harold forbes, rare books, rare book room, elizabeth dacre howard, poem, chaucer, mark brown,Pin It Associate curator Harold Forbes holds the 1561 copy of Chaucer that the poem was discovered in.
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"The goodbye I tried to speak but could not utter with my tongue
by my eyes I delivered back to yours.
That sad love that haunts the countenance in parting
contained the voice that I concealed from display,
just as Penelope, when her husband Ulysses was present,
was speechless – the reason is that sweet love of a gaze ..."
The erotic ending of the poem quotes a Roman writer named Martial:
"Long enough am I now; but if your shape should swell under its grateful burden, then shall I become to you a narrow girdle."
While Cooke would almost certainly have seen the poem, Treharneisn't certain that there actually was a romance between the two.
"It might represent some kind of love affair, [or] it might be a more academic exercise, it's very difficult to determine," Treharne said. "If it was a rhetorical exercise I wonder why she kept it."
source(google.com)
The first part of the poem, as translated by Treharne, seems to refer to a period in 1553 when Cooke, under the reign of Mary I, was sent to the Tower of London and then exiled. It reads:
harold forbes, rare books, rare book room, elizabeth dacre howard, poem, chaucer, mark brown,Pin It Associate curator Harold Forbes holds the 1561 copy of Chaucer that the poem was discovered in.
Credit: Mark Brown, West Virginia UniversityView full size image
"The goodbye I tried to speak but could not utter with my tongue
by my eyes I delivered back to yours.
That sad love that haunts the countenance in parting
contained the voice that I concealed from display,
just as Penelope, when her husband Ulysses was present,
was speechless – the reason is that sweet love of a gaze ..."
The erotic ending of the poem quotes a Roman writer named Martial:
"Long enough am I now; but if your shape should swell under its grateful burden, then shall I become to you a narrow girdle."
While Cooke would almost certainly have seen the poem, Treharneisn't certain that there actually was a romance between the two.
"It might represent some kind of love affair, [or] it might be a more academic exercise, it's very difficult to determine," Treharne said. "If it was a rhetorical exercise I wonder why she kept it."
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