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Thread #63628 Message #3543827
Posted By: GUEST,Grishka
31-Jul-13 - 05:54 AM
Thread Name: Grovelling Songs (Male?)
Subject: RE: Grovelling Songs (Male?)
Thanks for refreshing this interesting thread (presumably for a personal reason, Joe).
"Groveling" has been in the staple of love poetry as long as it exists. It is not considered detrimental to the narrators' reputation, since everybody assumes that they will become quite bossy as soon as their pleading has been answered. And does it work? Obviously, sometimes. Abjectness don't resonate, do it - unless it do.
Johnny Cash's "Beans for Breakfast" quoted above: quite clever; we all know similar relationships, which may be called symbiotic.
"Sylvia's mother": pleading to the cruel mother; a different topic, more resembling classical tragedies.