Imagine wanting something, perhaps someone, who you loved more than anything in the world, but you simply could not have that individual. Marie De France: Laüstic is a poem translated by Robert Hanning and Joan Ferrante, who tells a beautiful, yet heartbreaking tale. To have a love so precious and lustful and not being able to do anything other than simply talk with one another through their balcony; which makes it romantic since they are neighbors and are close to each other. Adding icing to the cake, lays a question on why the lovers cannot unite. The male figure is in love with his neighbor 's wife! The neighbors love was sinful,
The wife and the neighbor maintained in a unwedful lust for one another through the symphony of the nightingale. To their ears, it was love. When the wife informed her husband,
"My lord, there is no joy in this world / like hearing the nightingale sing. / That is why I stand there. / It sounds so sweet at night / that it gives me great pleasure; / it delights me so and I so desire it / that I cannot close my eyes.
(Laustic, line 83 - 90)
Her husband grew mad, and demanded the nightingale to be captured in order to end his wife 's "insomnia". Once captured, …show more content…
Barban writes that the partner that was cheated on should forgive their unfaithful partner, "The Christian parallels are implicit but never explicit in this poem or any of the others. Marie makes it clear that God is merciful to true lovers, as if God himself were the designer of their fate. Their sins, including adultery, are considered forgivable, if not already forgiven for love 's sake." Backing up with the Bible, on John 8:10 – 11, it states, 10 Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”11 “No one, sir,” she said. “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of
The wife and the neighbor maintained in a unwedful lust for one another through the symphony of the nightingale. To their ears, it was love. When the wife informed her husband,
"My lord, there is no joy in this world / like hearing the nightingale sing. / That is why I stand there. / It sounds so sweet at night / that it gives me great pleasure; / it delights me so and I so desire it / that I cannot close my eyes.
(Laustic, line 83 - 90)
Her husband grew mad, and demanded the nightingale to be captured in order to end his wife 's "insomnia". Once captured, …show more content…
Barban writes that the partner that was cheated on should forgive their unfaithful partner, "The Christian parallels are implicit but never explicit in this poem or any of the others. Marie makes it clear that God is merciful to true lovers, as if God himself were the designer of their fate. Their sins, including adultery, are considered forgivable, if not already forgiven for love 's sake." Backing up with the Bible, on John 8:10 – 11, it states, 10 Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”11 “No one, sir,” she said. “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of