Song of Solomon 1

I am dark, but lovely,
O daughters of Jerusalem,
Like the tents of Kedar,
Like the curtains of Solomon. v.5

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Song of songs, meaning the song above all songs or the most beautiful or excellent song.
Many ideas of what this book is about.  Some say it's a love poem from Solomon to one of his wives or it's a picture of God's love for his people.  Yet both these ideas don't really make sense as we dig in to what these chapters say.  Would God make a the most romantic hero a polygamist like Solomon who had hundreds of wives and concubines?  It is unknown who this book is written by though most people say it's by Solomon, yet it appears more this book was written FOR Solomon and not by Solomon.  
C.D. Gingsberg believed this book was the story of a love triangle between a country boy and county girl and Solomon as the villain trying to steal away the girl from the boy.  This seems to make more sense as we see the different characters speaking throughout the book and remains consistent of the characters throughout the book as well as rebuke to Solomon in his polygamy.  Kind of like when the prophet Nathan rebuked David for his sexual sin by a story.  This book is written like a play, only seeing the line yet no connecting narrative.
Here in verse five we read the Shulamite woman speaking.  She saying she is dark.  Women of high class back then were pale looking where the working women were dark because of their tan from the sun (as we see in verse six).  So we can assume this girl is one that must work and play outside, like a country girl.  She's in the city Jerusalem though now and talking to women or maids of Solomon. She appears to be day dreaming here of the handsome and famous king Solomon, like a teenage girl today having a crush on a celebrity.  Yet she's not going to let herself get caught up in this day dreaming though these other women try to talk her in to fill this fantasy than stay true to her fiance at home.
So as we start this beautiful song, what picture has been painted about this book to you before or are you forming now? For Gingsberg narrative read Companion Song of Solomon