Poetry in the Song of songs [electronic resource] : a literary analysis / Patrick Hunt.
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- BS1485.52 .H6 2008eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-360) and index.
Focus, history of the book, hermeneutics and its influence -- The figurative language of desire : "your lovemaking is better than wine" -- Subtle wordplay : concealed paronomasia and secrets -- Sensory imagery : "he shall lie between my breasts" -- The lovers' garden : fertility imagery as eroticism in flowers, fruit and spices -- Animal imagery : stags, gazelles and flocks as virility and wealth -- The lovers' banquet : "feed me sweet cakes" -- The lovers' dualisms : binary language in poetic parallelisms -- Protection, power and priceless worth : love's safeguards -- The lovers' transformations : similes -- The lovers' synthesis : metaphors.
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