Ancient Egypt, not noly gave us one of the greatest structures in the world, Pyramids, but also left people its written treasure, love poems.
The voice of the wild goose cries,
Where she has seized their bait,
But your love holds me back,
I am unable to liberate her.
I must, then, take home my net!
What shall I say to my mother,
To whom formerly I came each day
Loaded down with fowls?
I shall not set the snares today
For your love has caught me.
The writer of this poem sent readers a clear message of his emotion. In this poem, I think "the wild goose" means the ladies, and the "net" is the metaphor of the method of seducing women. What the writer tried to tell is that, after meeting his true love, other ladies become loud and noisome females for him. Because the true love let the man realize something.
Love does not mean how many pretty ladies around you but, instead, it allows you to intend to be away from other women except the one that you love.
This poem describes the emotional change of a man who was aware the coming true love and his true passion. He decided to end his lust and to clean off his formerly lovers.
After reading this poem from Ancient Egyptian Love Poems, I strongly feel the natural human emotion behind this love poem. Even though the technolog has been developed, these poems provide us the development of Egypt civilization.
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I loved reading your insight on this poem. I think perhaps that the "dove," the narrator speaks of during the 7th part of the poem (because I do believe they all flow together), speaks of his true love. I think it's interesting the bird references the narrator uses to state his relationship with the women noted in his poems. -Ramona
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