#Legends of poetry

[mufrad]

سراپا عشق ہوں میں اب بکھر جاؤں تو بہتر ہے

جدھر جاتے ہیں یہ بادل ادھر جاؤں تو بہتر ہے

Sarapa ishq hoon mein ab bikhar jauu toh behtar hai, Jidhar jaate hai yeh baadal idhaar jaaun toh behtar hai,

ٹھہر جاؤں یہ دل کہتا ہے تیرے شہر میں کچھ دن

مگر حالات کہتے ہیں کہ گھر جاؤں تو بہتر ہے

Theher jaau yeh dil kehta haii tere sheher mein kuch din, Magar haalaa't kehte hai ki ghar jaaun toh behtar hai,

دلوں میں فرق آئیں گے تعلق ٹوٹ جائیں گے

جو دیکھا جو سنا اس سے مکر جاؤں تو بہتر ہے

Dilo'on mein fark aayenge ta'alluk tut jaayenge, Joh dekha joh suna usse mukar jaaun toh behtar hai,

یہاں ہے کون میرا جو مجھے سمجھے گا فراز

میں کوشش کر کے اب خود ہی سنور جاؤں تو بہتر ہے

Yahaan hai kon mera joh mujhe smjhega faraaz, Mein koshish krke ab khud hi sanwar jaau toh behtar hai

- احمد فراز ساب

- Ahmed Faraz Saahab

[enyasaints]

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[alex-bumble-bee]

vi, cait - the guardian and the searcher

(more poetry on @two-bees-poetry)

[the-evil-clergyman]

King Arthur's Tomb, from William Morris' The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems by Jessie M. King (1904)

[andi-o-geyser]

oh god he even named his new home the brass skull he’s literally never gotten over them

[dxmianwaynesstuff]

jayce and viktor.

on absolute devotion.

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[indeedgoodman]

[mournfulroses]

Jules Laforgue, from Modern Poets of France: An Anthology; "Legend,"

[jarofalicesgrunge]

Dirt special collection ❤️‍🔥 32 years ago !!!

[vithepitdrunk]

Sisters are a reflection of what we could be

[asoftepiloguemylove]

"EVERYTHING IS MORE BEAUTIFUL BECAUSE WE ARE DOOMED. YOU WILL NEVER BE LOVELIER THAN YOU ARE NOW. WE WILL NEVER BE HERE AGAIN."

Homer The Iliad // 呪術廻戦 Jujutsu Kaisen (2018-2024) cr. Gege Akutami // Mitski I'm Your Man // Alien Stage (2022-) cr. VIVINOS & QMENG // Wisława Szymborska The Onion // Fear Street Part Three: 1666 (2021) dir. Leigh Janiak // Mitski Once More to See You // Arcane: League of Legends (2021-2024) // Ethel Cain Wrestling in Dirt Pits // 怪物 Monster (2023) dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda // unknown // Banana Fish (2018) dir. Hiroko Utsumi // Bianca Stone Artichokes // Portrait de la jeune fille en feu Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma // Robert Frost Nothing Gold Can Stay // NANA (2006-2007) dir. Morio Asaka // Coldplay Sparks // 刻在你心底的名字 Your Name Engraved Herein (2020) dir. Patrick Kuang-Hui Liu // Julia de Burgos That You Love Me In Green // Moonlight (2016) dir. Barry Jenkins // Margaret Atwood Significant Moments in the Life of My Mother

[crumblinggothicarchitecture]

Y'all wanna know about a gender-non-conforming knight from 13th century France? No? That's okay- I'm fine with talking to myself.

I'm obsessed with gender performativity in early medieval texts- so obviously I had to know everything about Le Roman De Silence.

To preface-

So, long before there was the Marvel Cinematic Universe- there was the interconnected works of the Arthurian Legends. The original superheroes- King Arthur, Merlin, Morganna le Fey, and the rest of the cast. However, one of the lesser known (only arguably canonical) interconnected texts of the Arthurian legend hails from France. People argue over whether or not to include these texts as part of the cannon of King Arthur because it's technically french- and the french-english divide between characterization of all the main players of Arthur's court is remarkably different. Much research on this suggests the discrepancy of characterization is largely due to distance between where the stories originate, and sociopolitical tensions between the French and the English. Either people were too far apart to share stories- thus too far apart to keep characterization uniform, or they fucking hated each other enough to mess up the characterization on purpose. For example, many of the French portrayals of King Arthur paint him to be a rather terrible person, where English portrayals are generally more kind to him.

All that aside- many people will disagree that Le Roman de Silence should even be part of the Arthurian legend canon anyway- because it only mentions Merlin at the end of the poem and because it's a super french poem.

The main storyline is about this character named Silence. From the Old French Poem- Le Roman de Silence.

Gender? No- Never heard of it.

The latter half of the story in this poem is predicated on a complex mediation of Nature vs Nurture. What happens is that a baby is born into a wealthy family, and for sociopolitical reasons, the family decides to raise the girl baby as a boy. They name this child "silence." Silence grows up with full access to an education, as was typical for the boy children of aristocratic medieval families- this education becomes important later as Silence wrestle with where they fit into the larger social structure after maturing into adulthood. Essentially, they find the idea of marriage too boring and would like to be a Knight or Explorer instead. (I love them.) Anyway, it's fascinating to me that the conceptual ideas of nature and nurture are personified into being something like "deities" which are overseeing the growth of Silence through the ages- and so we get these deities commentary.

Silence wants to be a knight- so Nurture brags about being right that gender is more performative than it is biological. Then, later Silence grows up to be remarkably "pretty" and according to the deity of Nature- they brag about being right that biology and gender are intrinsically tied. It's such a thought-provoking mediation on gender as either performance or pure biology that I forget it was written in the 13th century- long before Freud or Lacan or any of the others who became hyper fixated on human presumption of gender as either a social category or a biological necessity.

I argued in a paper, once, that the narrative itself does actually finally end on the note that Gender is a performance, and it is tied into social roles only so the ruling class can have control of the population. That is why the stories ending shifts into horror-genre-esque of Silence marrying into the upper-ruling class.

I also have a strong urge to write a Fanfiction of Silence as a knight- who does not meet a sad fate but rather lives happily as a knight and eventually marries a princess. Okay- Okay? fine I said it. I said it-

Social pressure to marry?

The story takes a dark turn, however- when the King demands Silence to reveal themselves in front of the court. Obviously, even the author of the story was aware that misogynistic social standards would not allow for people to ever really be free of gender stereotypes and roles. So, Silence is then forced out of the adventurous lifestyle of a knight and into a marriage. Also, this is the place in the story where Merlin makes an appearance (I have a theory that Merlin is representative of the devil, and the author really hated that all AFAB people were forced into marriage back in 1200's. So that's why the devil shows up when all the bad shit is happening to Silence).

Inevitability and dismay-

What I find particularly interesting about this poem is the fact that the end, as Silence is forced into marriage and back into "proper" social roles for their assumed biological characteristics, is the fact that it is written like an early attempt at gothic horror!

So, one of the stipulations for something being a "gothic horror" is 1.) old, archaic, twisted buildings. (this blog is indeed named after my fixation with gothic horror elements, it's interplay relation to social reform, as its emphasis on decay as the tonal necessity for social indemnification). Anyway, the other most important aspect of gothic horror- is an overwhelming sense of desolation, isolation, and loneliness.

Sure, Silence is forced into marriage- but even with the forthright writing style of the author, we, as readers, are struck by Silence's loneliness. Thus, the "happily ever after" part of the storyline wherein the characters get married, as it traditional to chivalric romance, is recriminated against in subtext. Now, we have a moment in which the "happily ever after" is a creation of horror rather than peace.

Ending the narrative with marriage as equivalent to a loss of freedom and a sense of evermore-present loneliness, cumulating in the edifice of horror-struck fear in Silence at their own new future, is a remarkably bold social statement coming from a 13th century author.

I just think it's a really interesting text on the thematic points of negotiating Gender identity, in broader terms of performance and social roles, as much as it is a critique on the total social control that the monarchy held over the people of 13th century France.

Edit: I need to add that Silence themselves consistently rejects the idea that they are AFAB and instead only ever refers to themselves as "Silence" or "the knight"

[alex-bumble-bee]

sister i, sister ii - vi, jinx

[visiblespiketrap]

My heart almost broke. I mean, of course I and others can/could ship whatever anyway, but I can't help but be relieved that Sidon and Yona's marriage was arranged by his father canonically.

[bytebun]

OH HIGH MOUNTAIN, HOW I LONG TO REACH YOU BREATHING YOUR SWEETNESS EVEN HERE!

[dxmianwaynesstuff]

jayce and viktor.

on unconditional love.

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