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Interpreting Literature
Critical Interpretation
A Psycho-Sexual Reading of Victorian Literature and the "Gender" Question
Bernini, Sleeping Hermaphroditus (1620)
Ekphrasis
Ekphrastic refers to a form of writing, mostly poetry, wherein the author describes another work of art, usually visual. It is used to convey the deeper symbolism of the corporeal art form by means of a separate medium. It has often been found that ekphrastic writing is rhetorical in nature and symbolic of a greater meaning.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
"Hermaphroditus"
Love made himself of flesh that perisheth
A pleasure-house for all the loves his kin;
But on the one side sat a man like death,
And on the other a woman sat like sin.
So with veiled eyes and sobs between his breath
Love turned himself and would not enter in.