Timeline for "The world forgetting, by the world forgot."
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| Feb 23, 2011 at 15:43 | history | edited | Jonathan Leffler | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
Update slightly.
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| Feb 23, 2011 at 15:40 | comment | added | Jonathan Leffler | @ShreevatsaR: OK; I didn't read enough (any) of the context around the four lines to check whether the subject was truly Eloisa or 'the blameless vestal'; I'll update accordingly. | |
| Feb 23, 2011 at 10:50 | comment | added | ShreevatsaR | This is what I thought at first too, but actually, reading the poem, it's pretty clear that "the blameless vestal" is not Eloisa, who had become pregnant before joining the monastery and whose mind is (she feels) not spotless. :-) She's talking of a hypothetical someone else in contrast to herself. | |
| Feb 23, 2011 at 8:32 | history | answered | Jonathan Leffler | CC BY-SA 2.5 |