Brilliant! Thank you so much. I was directed towards this poem by a colleague who has been discussing a text with me which I am dealing with in my dissertation. It is a short story from an East German novel about a women who undergoes a physical body transformation in response to her desire to be a man in the gendered reality of East German society. After avoiding her male partner, they eventually reunite and see that, in fact, the physical body has no bearing on their love. Its an interesting meditation on the relationship between love and sexuality and how transformations in how we understand love can help effect changes in society regarding gender and gendered expectation. My colleague mentioned both Plato's writings on Eros and this poem, and your analysis has really opened it up to me. It seems to me, now, that the text i am writing on tries to separate spiritual / lunar / top of the compass love out from erotic / bodily / material love, so as to find a way for people to be truly equal in society (loving eachother as humans in a spiritual way) while still making room for difference in the realm of bodily love and pleasure. Maybe decoupling the body from love allows us to decouple the body from all other realms of society. Thank you again!

That was so inspiring! I am looking forward to more of these series! Great video!

u saved me thank you. terrific insights, god bless

Thank you so much i loved your explanation it made me love the poem🥺❤️❤️

The way you have explained the poem by pointing out the important literary devices in such a simple and easily understandable language is what I can't help admiring. I have been teaching English to undergraduate and graduate classes for last five years in Pakistan. I would strongly recommend to all my students to visit your channel because it has much for them to benefit from. Stay blessed!!!!

The audio is weird, but thank you for this video!

THANK YOU! :)

Dear, please record some videos on Jornalistic Discourse and Visionary Discourse.

Why does the trepidation of sphere call innocent? please tell me

Finally I heard that with a good English 😢😂

Woe John Donne is also my favorite metaphysical poet. Even my professors and cllassmates call by 5he name John Donne . 'The Good-Morrow'. I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I. Holy Sonnet: 'Death, be not prou. The Sun Rising'. Holy Sonnet: 'Batter my heart, three-person'd God'. Song: Go and catch a falling star. I am also a poet in pashtoo (my native language ) language. One of my love couplet is similar to his" The Flea". when we were discussing this particular poem "The Flea " I said to my professor Sir " I composed a love couplet which is very similar to this one, recited afterwards ,then they start calling me John Donne 😂

Should be more than analysis, Nor feeling of language crisis!