What is song of roland about?

Answer 1

A:Although this poem, also known as Song of Solomon, is attributed to Solomon, the language and style indicate that it was written after the end of the Babylonian Exile.

It tells the sexual experiences and thoughts of a black woman, but seems to have no real historical or religious significance. However, some find in it a portrayal and praise of the mutual love of God and his people, or an inspired portrayal of ideal human love. Perhaps a little erotica helped keep the faithful interested.

Verse 2:4 suggests that the 'rose of Sharon' longs for love and that this encounter followed a drinking session: "He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love." Verses 2:5-6 set the scene for the rest of the story - his left arm under her head as he sleeps, and she tells the daughters of Jerusalem (the throng outside?) not to wake him. She is sexually satisfied, but perhaps this is not the love she pines for (3:1-2): "By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not."

Another Answer:

It has been said that The Bible is the 'manual' for mankind and sexuality is a big part of the human experience.

The Song of Songs of Israel's 3rd King Solomon, is a unique book of a moving love story of a young country girl whose skin has been touched by the sun and is dark and the King. It delicately and poetically expresses these lovers intense passion and deep longing for each other. Yet even in this eloquently expressed work of passion between a bride and bridegroom, there is an exhortation to remain sexually pure before marriage (2:7) as is God's law.

In short, the Book of the Song of Songs, celebrates human sexuality within the context of marriage.

Answer 2

Roland.