| Abstract: | Solomon is or is not the author of Song of Songs may not matter for the poem’s aesthetic value. But it does matter for its permission into the canon. Among various aesthetic implications of Song of Songs, beauty remains a constant theme covering all sensual as well as spiritual pleasures which are no longer linked with dangerous illusion in the biblical context, or no longer need to plea to a divine light. Thus the motif of body manifested in the poem becomes the representation of the relationship between the self and the world, the focus of metaphors, and the combination of different terms. As a unique love poem in the Old Testament without any words mentioning the God, the evolution of Song of Songs, i.e., how the fragment lyrics concentrated into the integrated poem, is also a glorious route full of aesthetic significance. |
