Society was and continues to be based off patriarchal principles, it was likely for the man to take power and hold restraints for a women in a relationship. The way the guitarist comes before his “instrument” with “attentive courtesy connotes that a man is asking to control his women, rather than demanding. The significance of “bent over his instrument” still implies that he is looking her condescending, as opposed to equally. However, the reader knows he is simply treating her with kindness, and that the guitarist is not against controlling her as a “conqueror”. The poet compares the guitarist (an artist) with a man who is in love with a loved woman. The lover knows how and what should he do to bring about desired reactions of his beloved, they play the sport of love. So, the guitarist is like the man who is in love with a woman and is not like the ‘lordly conqueror’.
Society was and continues to be based off patriarchal principles, it was likely for the man to take power and hold restraints for a women in a relationship. The way the guitarist comes before his “instrument” with “attentive courtesy connotes that a man is asking to control his women, rather than demanding. The significance of “bent over his instrument” still implies that he is looking her condescending, as opposed to equally. However, the reader knows he is simply treating her with kindness, and that the guitarist is not against controlling her as a “conqueror”. The poet compares the guitarist (an artist) with a man who is in love with a loved woman. The lover knows how and what should he do to bring about desired reactions of his beloved, they play the sport of love. So, the guitarist is like the man who is in love with a woman and is not like the ‘lordly conqueror’.