Song of Songs

Song of Songs

                Reading through the Song of Songs seemed to have painted a visual picture for me. An example of on e of the mental illustrations is, “Your lips, my promised one, distill wild honey” (page283). As I was reading and visualizing what the author wrote, I couldn’t help but read with an inflection. They way the love son was written is beautiful and it really shows how this writer feels about his true love. The love between the two seems to be more physical—but I’m not meaning to say this as if I meant the writer was being necessarily sexual. Relating back to Helen Fisher’s What is Love? she states, “Males…showed more activity in the visual stimuli…women showed more activity with memory recall” (page 335). I mention this because when the man is speaking in the verses, he seems to be very descriptive about the woman’s features. He talks about her cheeks being the halves of a pomegranate, how she’s free of blemishes, ad how her eyes are like doves (page 283). The woman who writes a few chapters about eh man writes down the words that she remembered him saying to her. These examples go to show that humans in the present still love the same way as our ancestors and others centuries ago are exactly the same. Nature has not changed these fundamental parts of the brain because this core system of love is successful. So why would nature need to change something if it’s functioning well?