Naturally Dramatic

While reading Renaissance literature I have a hard time taking it seriously at first- but then I realize it is simply my pride trying to guard my secretly overly-dramatic and poetic tendencies from being exposed. In our modern culture we tend to not take people very seriously when they talk about their hearts being drowned in tears or the death of their soul. But...WHY NOT!? For people like Petrarch and Cereta it would have been unnatural to express their feelings and experiences without poetic lyricism or detailed metaphors born of mythology. The only reason I first discredit these works is because I tend to view such dramatization of words and feelings as fake. However, I have come to realize that this is a flaw of my modern construction and not one which would have been applicable to Petrarch of Cereta.

In fact, I also belong to the group of very dramatic overly verbose members of the human race. I am sure this syndrome is only aided by my classical education and encountering an abnormal number of people who express themselves in a like manner through reading. However, I am constantly frustrated by the fact that people tend to not take my seriously when I construct metaphors involving a tree and my fading girlhood. As a result, I tend to only speak this way to my close friends and in my journal. If only I lived in 14th century Italy!