All Comments on 'Sophias Spouse'

This poem was mentioned in Wednesday's New Poems Reviews.

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Some religious people might take offence to this but feminists will like it if they can work it out.Not great poetry but a good micky take.

It seems obtuse at first but I can project my own ideas easily into it, with no confidence at all that I am in line with your intention. Sophia seems so close to Sophistry that I leap to make that connection and de-gender-ize the meaning. The tangle of no and know and knowing points to Plato's theories of knowledge and how you must pass through the valley of the shadow of doubt on the way to gaining a true opinion of the truth...perhaps I put too much into this spare little jewel. Isn't that one of the great things about great poetry? Infused with our own light, it gleams? This gleams and it may not be my light but all yours. -C