The essence of true love is in the yearning not in the
consummation. This literary analysis of the Song of Songs employs
the methods of New Criticism. Each analysis aims to uncover the
messages conveyed by the poems and the inner world of the
characters. The analysis brings to the fore the highly
sophisticated and the original creativity of the love poetry of the
Song of Songs. In the introduction, the question is posed as to
whether the Song of Songs is an anthology or one literary whole.
After discussing the strengths and weakness of the various
approaches, the author proposes a novel structure for the Book
predicated on the various genres of the love poems. Assis discerns
poems of physical description, poems of adoration, and poems of
yearning. In addition, he discerns what he takes to be a previously
unrecognized genre, poems of rendezvous - a new structure which is
based on a psychological understanding of passionate love is now
discovered. One of the undisputed dominant features of passionate
love is the longing for union with the beloved. Based on this
premise, the book is divided into five sections, each of which ends
with an attempt to unite or in a union. The structure of the book
reflects an emotional and inner development in the psyche of the
lovers and in the relationship between them. Throughout the book
the interrelationships between the various genres of the love
poems, and the development of the characters is spelled out
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