Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis came up this afternoon as I was writing commentary for Trollope's Can You Forgive Her? (Trollope uses the poem in two consecutive chapters). Reading more of the poem to get context for the bit that Trollope quotes made me want to read all of it, and I suggested to Chris that we read it aloud since we just finished our latest read-aloud project (The Memoirs of Moominpappa). So after dinner we read it, alternating between us stanza by stanza. What a strange poem, an odd and beguiling mixture! When we finished, we talked about the poem and what it could be doing, a conversation which was good, even if we still have lots of lingering questions.
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