George Gascoigne Use Metaphors In For That He Looked Not Upon Her

Love is often seen as a beautiful emotion that brings happiness and joy. However love can be merciless. In the famous play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, love causes misery and heartache for the protagonists. A famous poem “For That He Looked Not upon Her” by George Gascoigne, the speaker interprets love as painful.The English Renaissance poets, George Gascoigne and William Shakespeare, portray love as cruel by using metaphors and allusions in their works.

In the poem, “For That He Looked Not upon her”, George uses metaphors to express that love is painful. The poem describes the speaker’s pain due to love.For example, George says, “The mouse which once hath broken out of a trap.” He is implying that he is the mouse and that the trap is love. He is indirectly stating that he was trapped by love. That love had caged him. But since he broke out of that cage the speaker promises himself that he will never repeat the same mistake. Thus, the mouse and the cage suggests that love made him to be naive.

Romeo and Juliet is a influential romantic tragedy by William Shakespeare where two star crossed lovers are separated by age-old grudge in their family's history. For example, at the end of scene one in act one Shakespeare writes that, “With Cupid’s arrows. She hath Dian’s wit.” This means that the character, Roseline, is not returning the same feelings that character, Romeo, feels. The Cupid arrows represents the girl who does not love Romeo. Dian’s wit is representing Roseline not willing to be in a romantic relationship and how smart she is. Both of these references are from roman mythology and are symbolic to the text. This is due to the fact that Cupid is the god desire and Dian, whom is a goddess, embodies virginity and hunting. Essentially the unrequited love that Romeo faces causes him to feel depressed and causes pain