Desire and metaphor

Song 4 contains the Lover's response, which describes his beloved's beauty but ends with the Beloved requesting that her lover return to "his garden." In this case, "garden" is thinly veiled metaphor to denote sexual embrace and intimacy (recall the Bruce Springsteen video).

It is a place of physical activity but also emotional connection; it portrays how for the Beloved, the physical is also emotional.

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By Jeremiah Cataldo

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