'Do you like poetry? '
Asked Madame Bovary of her lover,
'I love you', he responded,
'Poetry is, loving one another'.
Love as the personification of poetry. Madame B. had to give him extra points for that line. : -)
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Does this come from the novel? I remember her first lover wins her heart by telling her he loves to listen to the deep, dark German music, which I suppose would be Brahms, Schumann, the Romantics in general. That appreciation made the man seem so different from her colorless husband. Emma Bovary-a symbol of our restless inner self who can never be fulfilled, unless - unless - (Oh, I cant finish that sentence: I'm waiting for you to do so!)