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I never claimed "straight" meant hetero, just different. He
knows he's different. How? We don't know, but that doesn't
mean we can't interpret, based on what else is in the sonnet.
Sh uses words like "sportive," "adulterate," abuses," "bad,"
"wills," etc.,...all words that have a sexual resonance. ("Will"
included the meaning of libido.)Your own comments about sodomy support the speculation,
repeat speculation, that it's probably homosexual behavior
that's the issue.Incidentally, to bring some of these points together, there's
a letter from the Earl of Oxford, a notorious bisexual, to
Burleigh (in his collected letters, Plomer (ed.))in which he
complains about being spied on (again for an unknown transgression)
and then says NO! I AM THAT I AM! Quite a coincidence, no?
Why was he being spied on?Posted by Professor Mike on April 13, 1997 at 04:10:20
In Reply to "Even though..." posted by Cloten on April 12, 1997 at 15:29:39
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