The Beginning Of The Song That Diverts The Heart Summary

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The Beginning of the Song that Diverts the Heart
The poem “The Beginning of the Song that Diverts the Heart” has an ancient origin and was translated by Michael Fox who has practical experience in literature and thought about the Hebrew Bible. He likewise works in Egyptian writings, which are similar to the origin of the poem "The Beginning of the Song that Diverts the Heart." Moreover, he got a Ph.D. in Egyptology, Semitics, and Bible from the Hebrew University. Additionally, he is right now a Professor of Hebrew at the University of Wisconsin. Originally, the poem has a basis of painting depicted on the walls by the early Egyptian artisans. From the works of art on the walls inside the old tombs, we can set up that essentially nude women …show more content…

Right from the first stanza, we can clearly see that the girl emphasizes her passionate feelings towards the boy by explaining how she desires to be close to her love. Moreover, she expresses the theme of love through using a narrative of how she is prepared to trap a bird. Apparently, this symbolizes how she is prepared to trap her lover’s feelings with the desire to live together all through her life. Additionally, the young lady emphasizes on her overall beauty, her beautiful hair, and clothing which is of the finest linen which she uses to attracts her lover’s attention (Hennessy & Patricia, p. …show more content…

The alliteration used is to emphasize rhythm in the poem. On the other hand, the poet also depicts a certain rhyme scheme across each stanza. For example, the first stanza has a rhyme scheme of this manner a, b, c, d, e, a. With this, the rhyme scheme depicted is an irregular manner. Hence, the poem does not have a regular rhythm. Moreover, the poet uses a specific deign of consonance, which is present in the poem (Ahmed & Ayesha, p. 11). The poet also uses the assonance style depicted in the seventh stanza, “Seven whole days I have not seen my beloved.” The letter ‘o’ has been repeated to create rhythm and to show despair in the poem. On the second last line of the seventh stanza, the poet uses the style of consonance, “If I hug her, she’ll drive illness from me. By this, the letter ‘l’ is repeated across the line. The poet’s aim of using this style of Consonance is to establish rhythm in the poem and add aural

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