Can't find much about this one specifically, though I do now have another article to read (https://www.jstor.org/stable/2719486?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents). I think I'll get through this first collection/post, then read one or both of the short articles, then return to the second.

'trees with curved drooping branches,
With the doliches creepers clinging to them'

This kind of parasitic treatment of the plant that, two poems ago, was a powerful/spreading symbol of the family is a bit unexpected.

The xing of placing the drooping branches and clinging vine next to the lady--are we supposed to read her ideal femininity as similarly dependent/clinging?

Princely/happiness/dignity are all unexpectedly noble, masc-coded, subject-centring adjectives, though. Feels like the sort of poem that could have been written about a male subject?