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Katherine Philips the Matchless Orinda - Coggle Diagram
Katherine Philips the Matchless Orinda
The Interregnum
Oliver Cromwell (great dude) (not really)
Relationships between men were not stable
Could be punished for being a royalist
Friendships between men become more important
January 1649 - May 1660
no public meetings or protests, but things happen in private
Royalist
Printing press was invented in 1450
manuscript = hand-written
more personal?; bound in the same volume; coterie(s); more intimate because you know the women you're sharing the poetry with. really queer; intellectual exchange; collective of women experiences - threatens patriarchy because men don't like it when women think, let alone think together.
printed: public, not great for women
refer to each other (coterie) with Greek-inspired code names.
To the excellent Rosania
very sapphic
A retired Friendship
"in one another's hearts we live"
"our harmless souls are unconcerned"
"Princes wish, but wish in vain:" men can't love the way women do; the patriarchs are fighting and they can never experience pastoral bliss the way women can
bowre: "especially applied to a lady's private apartment; a boudoir" (OED); let's "innocently" spend an hour - women were perceived as uber innocent, would later tie in to the angel in the house of the victorian era
"cool their heat" - humoural; blood
Lucasia
"I am not thine, but thee" i am not yours, but we are one.
"I've all the world in thee"
"no bridegrooms" - she feels more with her "friend" than she does with her husband.
Inconstancy in Friendship
breakup poem :(
the beloved is having relations with men instead of with the narrator
"you must undo yourself to ruin me" - we are the same person, one in love, so if you leave me, you will lose a part of yourself