 | Thomas R. Franz - 1990 - 52 pages
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 | David G. Allen, Robert A. White - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 284 pages
...turning away from God by saying, Narcissus-like, that he cannot relinquish the image of himself in Eve: 1 feel The Bond of Nature draw me to my own. My own in thee. for what thou art is mine: Our State cannot be sever'd. we are one. One Flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself. (9.955-59) Ironically,... | |
 | Richard Hoffpauir - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 348 pages
...being."20 And there is the force of both of these in drawing the lovers closer to their natural selves ("I feel /The Bond of Nature draw me to my own, /My own in thee"), and thus only by mutually and reciprocally completing their human beingness ("to lose thee were to... | |
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Matter of scorn, not to be given the foe. However, I with thee have fix'd my lot, Certain to undergo like doom; if death Consort with thee, death is to me as life; So forcible within my heart I feel The bond of nature draw me to my own, My own in thee,... 
