In Jacapone da Todi's "The Lauds", poems 30-34 really did not mean much to me. However, from a literary standpoint, I begin to see the process in which someone can use words on paper to convey emotion. In support, or in backing up the writing style of da Todi, he does this in a way that rarely up-front says the emotion he feels.
Example, 30:
Why does the friar, spurred by the Devil,
Renounce poverty and become a bishop?
First poverty-then chastity?
It's but a short step.
In this one stanza, he starts with "spurred by the Devil." This is an attention grabber to anyone reading this at the time, and even in modern day in accordance with the purity expected from friars. He goes on to explain what change within the friar the Devil sparks, renouncing poverty to become a bishop. All of this relating to da Todi's large opposition against the conventuals in the Usus Pauper controversy. To curse even more, and to warn the conventuals of the pit they are falling into, he tells the friar of his inevitable fall into breaking vows of chastity once a lavish lifestyle in obtained with a bishop seat. Chastity: the most associated vow with the priesthood.
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