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Egyptian Love Poems
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Egyptian Love Poems
Amari Borum
Annotated Bibliography
Puchner, M. (2013). The Norton anthology of world literature. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
I used the chapter on Egyptian Love Poems to base my analysis on. The two poems, My God, my lotus and I wish I were her Nubian maid, were two poems that I saw correlated with each other and explained the two poems and their connections. I was able to analyze the two poems and compare their messages from Egyptian love.
Connection
The two poems connect to almost make one poem because they are different perspectives of love about one another. The woman expresses how she wished to give herself and her beauty to the man at a river. While he expressed how he wanted to already have known her so that he can take care of her and love her forever.
I wish I were her Nubian maid
My God, my lotus...
The poem transitions when the man expresses his desire to be the woman's aphrodisiac and wanting to please her. Expressing how he wish he'd be her Nubian maid so that he could already see her beauty. As stated before in My God, my lotus, the woman wanted to give herself to the man as well. He wanted to be her laundryman, so that he may touch garments that touched her body, washing out the moringa oils to only rub on his skin. In a sense, he wanted to feel closer to her. Then he wanted to be a symbolic ring or "the keeper of her finger" so she would see how much he loved her everyday.
My God, my lotus is a connection poem with I wish I were her Nubian maid. My God, my lotus explains the love from a woman's perspective, while I wish I were her Nubian maid explains love from a man's perspective.
The poem explains the love between a man and a woman. The woman likes going to river and wishes her love (the man) would come with her so she can show him her beauty and give herself to him. The man then goes to the river to meet so the two can accept each others love. The poem then transitions into I wish I were her Nubian maid.