| Eloisa To Abelard |
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After the assault, and even though they have a child, Abélard enters a Monastery and bids Eloisa do the same. She is tortured by the separation, and by her unwilling Vow of silence, arguably a Symbolic castration, a vow she takes with her eyes "fix'd" on Abélard instead of on the Cross (line 116). Years later, she reads Abélard's '' Historia Calamitatum '' (''History of my Misfortunes''), originally a letter of consolation sent to a friend, and her passion for him reawakens. This leads to the exchange of four letters between them, in which they explore the nature of Human and Divine Love in an effort to make sense of their personal Tragedy , their recognizably incompatible Male and Female perspectives making the Dialogue painful for both. {Link without Title} In Pope's poem, Eloisa is in anguish over the powerful, almost , but for Forgetfulness . :No, fly me, fly me, far as Pole from Pole ; :Rise Alps between us! and whole oceans roll! :Ah, come not, write not, think not once of me, :Nor share one pang of all I felt for thee. {Link without Title} Lines 207–210 were spoken in the movie '' Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind '', which borrowed line 209 as its title: :How happy is the Blameless Vestal 's lot! :The world forgetting, by the world forgot. : Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind ! :Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd ... {Link without Title} REFERENCES
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