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owlfish at 05:35pm on 29/04/2004
owlfish at 05:35pm on 29/04/2004I haven't read The Romance of the Rose in a very long time, so the opinions voiced in the following poem are more a reflection of the literature I've read since that time than my own opinion. I'm sure it's a much better tale than many passing comments on it would have you believe; although most of it is digressions.
Encyclopedic enterprise,
Twenty questions, truth or lies:
Jean de Meung killed - over time -
the song which charmed Lorris did rhyme.
Digressive, though impressive,
it's distressive and oppressive.
The citadel is overrun,
The rose is plucked, the war is won.
Encyclopedic enterprise,
Twenty questions, truth or lies:
Jean de Meung killed - over time -
the song which charmed Lorris did rhyme.
Digressive, though impressive,
it's distressive and oppressive.
The citadel is overrun,
The rose is plucked, the war is won.
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