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Past Reason Hated is the fifth novel by Canadian detective fiction writer Peter Robinson in the Inspector Banks series of novels. It was published in 1991, and won the 1992 Arthur Ellis Award for 'Best Novel'.
- Peter Robinson
- 1991
1. Jan. 2001 · In Past Reason Hated, the murder victim is a young lesbian whose bloody corpse is found on her couch just three days before Christmas. Poignantly, the room is well-lit by a decorated Christmas tree, and an album of classical music is playing over and over on the stereo.
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This piece begins with the speakerstating that an “expense of spirit” occurs when one engages in sexual activities, and it is shameful. It results in the men who commit these acts losing some sort of internal, powerful force. He goes on to explain that this refers only to “lust in action.” But, “till action,” lust is something else entirely. He see...
Often known by its numeral designation, sonnet 129, is one of the 154 sonnets written by William Shakespeare. It was published in 1609 and is considered to be amongst the group titled “Dark Lady “sonnets. This unknown person is featured in sonnets number 127 to 152. Some scholars believe that she was a woman the poet was having an affair with and t...
Lines 1-2
In the first quatrain of ‘Th’ expense of spirit in a waste of shame’, the speaker begins by stating that the “expense of spirit” is a wasteful thing. He is specifically speaking about men and the phrase “expense of spirit” suggests that the lustful man is losing some sort of internal power. When this happens, the man feels shame. This is an interesting way to begin a poem and suggests a lot about the speaker. Especially considering the contextual details which go along with this poem, as were...
Lines 3-4
To be more exacting, the speaker states that the waste of shame comes from “lust in action.“ This is any sexual act. It is lust as it is occurring. In the second half of the second line, which is a great example of a caesura, the speaker goes into a passionate, and undeniably angry, and frustrating list of emotions that are associated with the lead-up to a sexual act. For example, the speaker says that “lust is… murderous.” It is “bloody” and “full of blame”. He goes on to refer to it as “ext...
Lines 5-8
This is made all the clearer at the beginning of the second quatrain of ‘Th’ expense of spirit in a waste of shame’. The speaker states that no sooner is lust and sex enjoyed than it becomes “despised”. The temporary pleasure that one gets from feeling lust and then acting on lust is very limited. In the next lines the speaker tries to convince himself, and the reader, that when one is feeling lust they are “passed reason.” It brings one into a state that is closer to madness than happiness....
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Sonnet 129 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet. The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet. It follows the typical rhyme scheme of the form ABAB CDCD EFEF GG and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions.
Past reason hated as a swallowed bait. On purpose laid to make the taker mad; Mad in pursuit and in possession so, Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme; A bliss in proof and proved, a very woe; Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream. All this the world well knows; yet none knows well. To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.
When lust is longing, the fulfillment of that longing is hunted “past reason”; but as soon as it is achieved, it becomes shameful, and is hated “past reason.” In the third quatrain, then, the speaker says that lust is mad in all three of its forms: in pursuit and possession, it is mad, and in memory, consummation, and longing (“had ...
1. Juni 2007 · Past Reason Hated is the fifth novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from The Hanging Valley. It should have been a cosy scene – log fire, sheepskin rug, Vivaldi on the stereo, Christmas lights and tree. But appearances can be deceptive.
