Venus and Adonis

I was sitting around today and decided that i needed to finish Venus and Adonis since i had started it the other day. Personally i found the first 600 way funnier and enjoyable to read. They definitely seemed to move faster and the ideas being conveyed in them were extremely humorous. I am going to make a broad generalization of the typical man in today's society.( so forgive guys and gals) Faced with Adonis's predicament the average male in today's society would bend over backwards to have girls throw themselves at him like Venus does with Adonis. I certainly don't think they would say no like Adonis does. This leads me into the next idea i want to explore from this poem. The idea of women dealing with rejection versus we might expect a goddess to.

Lines 835-80 "She, marking them begins a wailing note/And sings extemporally a woeful ditty/How love makes young men thrall, and old men dote/ How love is wise in folly, foolish witty/ Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe/And still the choir of echoes answer so." She pouts about being rejected like a 14 year old girl would. It would seem to me that a goddess might have a sense of dignity and class. Nope not Venus wah wah wah. I definitely understand her grief at the end since Adonis has died and there is no chance to ever see him again. This kind of reaction is plausible and understandable compared to how she deals with rejection. The other thing i found humorous about this whole ordeal was how she accusation that the earth might find Adonis so attractive that she trips him herself to steal a kiss from his lips. That was a clever idea i could not have imagined til i read this.

All in all i think that this is a great poem and it didn't play out at all like i thought it would. Shakespeare continues to amaze me and i look forward to reading Lucrece.

Another link i found this one contains a rendition of Adonis's "Nay Then" speech towards the end of the poem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GftcE5FUrgk