Peer Review 1

Thank you for writing this Georgia, I really enjoyed reading it. You’ve done a great job of re-imagining Petrarch’s words from Rima 140. The metaphorical description of a love as an entity that is birthed clawing and grinding is very striking. The tone you’ve established creates this eerie sense of macabre beauty that really reflects some of the poet’s musings on unattainable love. I particularly like “One drives the dagger whilst one bares the heart” and the ironic sense of unity in purpose this provokes. The ending to your work is quite powerful; the concurrent acknowledgement of love’s futility and the need for it within our lives despite that acknowledgement leaves plenty of food for thought.