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yourlocalthembo's review
3.0
Content warnings: misogyny, ableism
"Her bodie is the Saint that I adore..." - I love this line. I'm reading this sonnet for my Renaissance Literature course in comparison with Shakespeare's Sonnet 130, which inverts the love sonnet conventions, but I quite like a good love poem. Griffin was onto something here with this line. It's dramatic af, but I like it.
On further reflection, the poet seems to be talking about the looks vs. personality discourse. Maybe he was trying to say that beauty is not everything? He compares his lady's mind (personality and/or intelligence) to a Griffin, which could mean a dog. YIKES.
"Her bodie is the Saint that I adore..." - I love this line. I'm reading this sonnet for my Renaissance Literature course in comparison with Shakespeare's Sonnet 130, which inverts the love sonnet conventions, but I quite like a good love poem. Griffin was onto something here with this line. It's dramatic af, but I like it.
On further reflection, the poet seems to be talking about the looks vs. personality discourse. Maybe he was trying to say that beauty is not everything? He compares his lady's mind (personality and/or intelligence) to a Griffin, which could mean a dog. YIKES.
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