Sunday, April 26, 2009

Whoso list to hunt

This poem is about a man who knows where a female deer is, in the woods? One thing that doesn't make sense is that a female deer is not the objective in hunting. The males always have more muscle on them, and the females breed so hunters never kill does, unless that's all there is. So, I think that this is about a woman. A woman that he lusts over. He refers to her as a doe because he is hunting her in a way, watching her, waiting for her to come. But she belongs to another, the landlord of the woods. "Noli me tangere" means don't touch me. So it is a forbidden love. It will always be a unsatisfied hunt. He will return knowing where the deer is but unable to touch her.

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