Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae
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- Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae
- Ernest Dowson
- fell in love with Adelaide Foltinowicz who was 11 years old when he was 23
- born in 1867 in London
- went to Queen's college but didn't finish his degree
- went on to marry a tailor
- Decadent poet
- late 19th century movement
- similar to aestheticism
- drinking and partying
- shocked Victorian establishment by foregrounding sensuality
- promoting artistry through sexual and political experimentation
- strong connection between visual and verbal form
- associated with the Victorian Child Cult
- Lewis Carroll
- perverse fascination with the immature female form
- late 19th century movement
- Non sum qualis...
- "I am not as I was in the reign of good/kind Cynara"
- a cynara is of the sunflower family
- from Horace's Odes Book 4,1
- implores Venus to wage no further ****** war on him
- implications of
- lost love
- past his prime
- a reflective and reminscent narrator
- alexandrine
- 12 syllable french line
- stresses on 6th and 12th syllable
- creates caesura
- stresses on 6th and 12th syllable
- expression of simple and complex emotions
- embodies simplicity and complexity of this tragic poem
- his love for his subject is clear, evident and simple
- insists he has "been faithful to thee, Cynara"
- the complexity is the social situation as he knows he cannot be with her
- "bought red mouth" he uses sex to escape his feelings
- insists he has "been faithful to thee, Cynara"
- "bought red mouth" he uses sex to escape his feelings
- ABACBC rhyme scheme
- refrain at end of each stanza
- begging, pleading, insisting his innocence
- simple, rhythmical structure
- refrain at end of each stanza
- "I am not as I was in the reign of good/kind Cynara"
- 1st stanza
- "last night, ah yesternight betwixt her lips and mine"
- archaic language
- links to the classical title
- age-old love
- somewhat ironic as age prohibits their love
- introduction of the heavy focus on time
- "old passion"
- "night-long"
- "yesternight"
- sense of distance between the speaker and the prostitute
- implies the love is not real
- "there fell thy shadow"
- enough emotional distance between the two for his true love to fall in
- Cynara is an omnipresent force
- repetition of Cynara 7 times
- apostrophe
- abstract lover
- sets the exposition of the piece
- reads like an epic
- archaic language
- "between the kisses and the wine"
- self-indulgence cannot distract from the unrelenting love
- "last night, ah yesternight betwixt her lips and mine"
- Ernest Dowson
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