Papyrus Chester Beatty Essay

The timeline of history is not a static one. As time progresses, most all aspects of life constantly advance. That being said, some things remain practically unchanged for several millennia. The ways of human nature are still as basic and at the same time incredibly complex today as they were thousands of years ago. A betrayal of a good friend hurts as much today as it did no matter what time period you look at. It is the reason good deeds have always been praised and bad deeds punished. The same may be applied to any facet of life. The pain felt when left in the absence of a loved one, the subject of the lyrical poetry found in the Papyrus Chester Beatty I. Expressed in these lyrics are emotions that readers today can relate with although being written in 1500 B.C. Egypt. The poem consists of seven stanzas, alternating between a man and women, expressing their feelings for the person they love.
It becomes almost annoying to think of someone in this state only having been in seven days of separation. What would a person like this do if the person he was waiting for was never to return. Such a person could not live a life of normalcy with such sadness hanging over their head. It is difficult to determine if this is a true account of someone in love, or if it is only a conceived notion of love by the author. Since the speaker of the poem switches between stanzas, it appears that this is a story of fiction. But that is not to say that this author has not felt such emotions before. Possibly it is an account of the authors take on feeling love in the past, now having known love writes a love story. Some details of the story appear all to true and would be difficult to write unless having lived some of them. The idea of wishing for a parent’s approval is probably a familiar concept to anyone who has ever been in a relationship. How could someone believe that love would feel such a way unless having felt it