A Letter To Susanna's Second Bed

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I hope you are living well, which I’m sure you are; under the care of our lovely daughter Susanna. Soon after I have returned home to Stratford from London after living there for around 20 years in the first week of 1616, I have notice that I was seriously ill. Foreseeing my death soon to come, I have told our daughter everything about how the two of us met and the story behind our marriage as I really hope there will no longer be conflicts between you and Susanna, so I don’t want our daughter to have thorn in her heart thinking that she was just an accident that let to our marriage, because you are the woman I love the most in my life, regardless of what happen in the past and respite what rumours you have heard, I can tell right in this …show more content…

The “second bed” is like a metaphor for the passion and love where they shared their memory and gone through all their hardships together as the “second best bed” was the marriage bed of Shakespeare and Hathaway, and a memento of their love. It is the most momentous bed that help embellish the romantic and artistic relationship between us as it was where we whisper together and share our memories. It is also where I brainstorm my ideas for my writing of prose and poems that are directly exclusive to you and more importantly it is the bed that had all the memory of our experience of sexual and romantic love and it enables us to recall the joys of lovemaking, which took place in the “second-best” bed as it allows us to act freely without being aware of our identity and how others view us. Whenever we had drama in bed, you always keep me satisfied unlike what our guests experience with the best bed we provide as an act of gracious. Our relationship is a romantic, artistic and adventurous one rather than a tedious one like the guest’s one and our memory in this bed will never be forgotten in my heart and I will always guard you from heaven and with this bed around it symbolises that I will always be belonged to you whenever you need and no-one else could take it away from yours the bed asserts the timelessness of great love and it resembles the idea of how even death can’t erase the living memory of love. Moreover it was also the bed I had sleep on when I was young as it was the bed that my parents had sleep together and more

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