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Behn and Rochester - Coggle Diagram
Behn and Rochester
sexual health
not aware of anatomy?: "But never did young shepherdess,/ Gathering of fern upon the plain,/ More nimbly draw her fingers back,/ Finding beneath the verdant leaves, a snake," (142)
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"While the o'er-ravished shephered lies/ Unable to perform the sacrifice"
-so unable to actually engage?
"But oh what envious gods conspire/ To snatch his power, yet leave him the desire1" (141)
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"Now all the brisk and active fire/ That should the nobler part inflame,/ Served to increase his rage and shame"
-humour talk
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"In liquid raptures I dissolve all o'er,/ Melt into sperm, and spend at every pore" (240)
-dude just busted without putting it in
heat talk: "Ev'n her fair hand, which might bid heat return/ To frozen age, and make cold hermits burn,/ Applied to my ded cinder, warms no more" (240)
"Thou treacherous, base, deserter of my flame,/ False to my passion, fatal to my fame" (241
jesus christ: "Worse part of me, and henceforth hated most,/ Through all the town, a common fucking post,/ On whom each whore relieves her tingling cunt,/ As hogs on gates do rub themselves and grunt" (241)
disability
"Transported, thinks himself amidst his foes" (236)
-PTSD; war-induced perhaps
"Nor let the sight of honorourable scars,/ Which my too forward valour did procure,"
-so definitely war-related
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"When I was strong,/ and able to bear arms" (236)
STIs
"So when my days of impotence approach,/ And I'm by pox and wine's unlucky chance" (236)
-pox refers to syphilis
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"May'st thou to ravenous chancres be a prey,/ Or in consuming weepings waste away. May strangury and stone thy days attend" (241)