Song of Solomon (Song of Songs) Themes
Masculinity and Femininity
The Song of Songs was written over two millennia ago, but we can still recognize those masculine and feminine tropes we're so familiar with today. The man sweeps the woman off her feet! The woman i...
Youth
At its core, the Song of Songs is about good, old-fashioned lust. And no offense to the senior citizens in the crowd, but this is young love. Everything about these two is youthful—virginity, fer...
Beauty
The main squeezes in Song of Songs aren't just lovebirds, they're super-hot lovebirds. Oh, and to top it off, they're frolicking amidst an outbreak of some major natural beauty. It's springtime in...
Sex
That's right, Shmoopers. The Song of Songs is sexy. We can't know whether a text like this would have been shocking or scandalous when it was first written. But we know our euphemisms when we see t...
Love
A love poem with a love theme behind it? Who'd have thought, right? But Song of Songs is actually surprisingly light on musings about love. Mostly because the bride and groom spend the majority of...