In Short...I Hope You Die. A Love Song by Dido.

"My love affair with you It’s over, it’s through. We loved and then we lost and though we came at quite a cost we’ve both had the chance to grow. I’ve collected my thoughts and once before I go there’s just one thing I want you to know…
I wanna punch you in the face. Stab you with a sword.I hope you lose all your hair, get eaten by a bear, strangle yourself with a telephone cord.
Lean out a window a little too far, don’t look both was and get hit by a car. Choke on a Now And Later, get your shoelaces caught in an escalator:
In short
I hope you die" (In Short from Edges)

I know this quote is a bit long, but I thought it summed up the relationship between Dido and Aeneas perfectly. They had a very brief love affair and then Aeneas drops the "It's not you, its the gods" bomb on her and gets out of town as fast as he is capable of getting.

Dido in essence says, In short, I hope you die, only her limerick sings more like: I hope your boat crashes while your out at sea, and while you are drowning your thinking of me. I built a great town and saw its great walls, I was happy until you loved and left without just cause. If I cannot have you then I wish bad omens to fall; in short, I hope you die.

Dido, after singing her little diddy, proceeds to off herself in the most dramatic way possible. It was debated in class weather or not this was a just and honor redeeming death, but in the end Dido was a consenting individual, and even though her kingdom might have been lost to her, if death was the only honorable option left to her was she really doing much ruling at the time in the first place?

Dido over all seemed like a rather selfish character to me. After she (kind of) gets her wish and Aeneas finds her in the underworld, she proceeds to ignore him. Why? Perhaps it is like the song says: "Maybe it’s wrong to wish death on someone you had so much love for. But since we shared so much, it makes me want to kill you more." But if it was merely love motivating her, why would she ignore him in the underworld? In short...Dido is a rather contrary witch. She loves a man for a week, kills herself over his loss, and then refuses to acknowledge his presence when he finds her in the underworld? Most of the class seems to feel sympathy for her...but I just can't see it.

Dido wishes death on Aeneas claiming she was dieing unavenged. But in the end, she killed herself..and I cannot see any reason for vengeance to be invoked for suicide.

P.S.-I posted on Sara Dye's blog Carpe Diem