Troilus And Cressida 3192 Years Later Poem by Paolo Giuseppe Mazzarello

Troilus And Cressida 3192 Years Later

Rating: 5.0


'CRESSIDA O heavens, you love me not! '
Shakespeare

Loves with tokens come often to a bad end.
Troilus gives Cressida a sleeve, which recalls the word 'slave'.
Cressida gives Troilus a glove. People know that Troy will fall.
Greeks hatch their plots, Trojans neither those.
Meanwhile, only Hector will die. In a certain sense, the Troilus's target.
Cressida knows sex, neither love, nor men.
Diomedes has got the sleeve: Calchas has his daughter among Greeks.
Troilus is such a peeping Tom in the Cressida's room.
Terrible! She's not faithful so he gets on into the army.
Poor soldiers, as well as their women.
Aeneas will win another war in Latium.
Troubles come after victories.
Troilus has the trouble of not reading the Cressida's letter.

Troilus And Cressida 3192 Years Later
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
"If you're waitin' for a woman to make up her mind, you may have a long way" from "Pale Rider",1985, by Clint Eastwood (see picture) .
COMMENTS OF THE POEM

Oh, by the way, happy birthday to Clint Eastwood!

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Ashraful Musaddeq 17 September 2008

Wow Troilus and Cressida in 2008, a great job is done.10++

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Onelia Avelar 09 May 2008

I like the educational effect of your poems and enjoy your erudit original presence on this site very much. And of course, your original poems.

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Abha Sharma 06 May 2008

Boccaccio, Chaucer and Shakespeare all would be happy to welcome a new member in their team...who reinvented Troilus and Cressida for the future context... well composed.. **Abha**

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