Sunday, October 4, 2009

Catullus 5

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Since the first poem we read Catullus has talked about jealousy. It started with his own and then shifted to people being jealous of him and Lesbia. Throughout the past few poems, as Catullus and Lesbia's relationship gets more defined, Catullus has been starting to grow on me. Of course he was super creepy when he was sitting watching her, but now that he has her, he treats her like a princess. What girl wouldn't want that? He lets her know that he doesn't care about anyone but her by telling her to consider the rumors to be worth a penny. He wants to forget everyone else, with their gossip and envy, and just focus on kissing her as much as he can. I think it's sort of romantic how he picks her over his reputation when she could just go back to her husband and leave him with nothing. I love lines 4-6, where Catullus talks about the sun being able to die and then rise again everyday. This is one of the first times he talks about something greater then just Lesbia. He shows how little we have in life and we have to take what we can (like a thousand kisses) in the moment. He uses hendecasyllabic meter in this poem just like most of what we have read already.

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