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Throughout the history of poetry the theory and idea of relationships have been a prominent themes within poems. The idea of love was romanticized and exaggerated to create a more thrilling and entertaining piece of literature. However, in George Gascoigne’s poem For That He Looked Not Upon Her, he conveys the somber ending of a relationship. This idea contrasts from existing poems written in the sixteenth-century and develops into a uniquely dreary poem. In “For That He looked Not Upon Her” George Gascoigne utilizes the form of a lyrical sonnet, a melodic diction, and symbolism to further depict the conclusive feelings of his relationship with this younger woman. George Gascoigne’s poem’s form of a sonnet, and also a lyric creates a rhythmic
In the sonnet, “For That He Looked Not upon Her,” written by English poet, George Gascoigne, he expresses his heartache and sorrow that he is experiencing from the woman he loves. Throughout the poem, Gascoigne uses literary devices such as diction and imagery to convey the feeling of grief and melancholy to his readers.
money and a life full of luxuries. He fell deeply in love with the young
“Wish for a Young Wife”, by Theodore Roethke, may seem to be more than just a simple epithalamium, for the way the poet presents his writing compels the reader to question his true intentions. Nevertheless, although it is easy for the reader to trip down this path, a closer reading, in which one pays particular attention to aspects such the poem's imagery, rhyme scheme, meter, and parallelism, allows them to acknowledge that as the poet appreciates his wife and elaborates on what he wants for her, it is in fact the ambiguity of the poem that doubles the effect of his sincerity and love for his young wife.
The sorrowful love sonnet is written in the Shakespearian style by dividing the sestet into a quatrain and final couplet. The first stanza reflects her love who “must shortly go” (1) bringing the focus to English society during the “bloodshot years” (2) of where an entire generation of young men was lost to the war effort. In the last line of the first stanza the speaker understands the toll on this generation of English people as she remarks that “their numbers will not come again” (4) suggesting the overall loss of young men in England after the war. The second stanza presents the mental strife the speaker is going through, on one hand she is trying to be somewhat reserved and brave for her lover who is about to leave but also to attempt to take in and commit to memory every precious moment with her beloved because she knows it may be “the last of all” (8). In the quatrain the speaker lists the ‘lasts’ and remarks “Even serving love, are our mortalities” (11) suggesting that in serving the love of one’s country in the end it is the people, the everyday populous such as these two lovers who bear the consequences and despair that death brings. In the final couplet the speaker finishes with the comforting thoughts that love knows no bounds. Her love will never end and
Sonnet 28, tracing the story of her love through the pile of love letters from Robert, gives an economical and powerful image of her own transformation from doubting individual to one who has experienced the intimacy of lovemaking . Her honest appraisal of herself is also evident in Sonnet 32 where she compares her no-longer-young body with an “out-of-tune worn viol”. Whereas Daisy’s identity is all in appearances and the glamour of her physical charms. EBB rather sees love, even physical love, as based more on the soul’s intensity ,“great souls, at one stroke, may do and doat.”)The “master-hands” of the genuine lover knows how to bring her to life and she accepts that to judge by outward appearances is to wrong the nature of love. This expresses how values of the time was based on identity and how individuals and society viewed
Heartbreak is an experience and emotion that mankind has faced forever. In the poem For He Looked Not Upon Her , George Gascoigne writes his sixteenth century sonnet about a speaker who cannot face his ex lover. The speaker of the poem speaks with an attitude that expresses exhaustion with the games of love all while recognizing the trustless beauty of his ex.
Renaissance poets were especially fond of articulating their love through writing, primarily poetry. After reading through all of the poems from the section “Renaissance Love and Desire,” George Gascoigne’s “And if I did, what then?” stuck out to me the most for several reasons. As I read this poem multiple times, I first seemed to notice that it consisted of a rhyme scheme of ABABCDCDEFEFGHGHIJIJKHKH. Although this was one of the first aspects I seemed to recognize in the poem, it is not the main reasoning that this poem stood out to me, but it was the distinctiveness in the poem’s message and meaning that made this poem extremely noticeable for me. Gascoigne makes readers realize that not all love has a happy ending and that not all love is pure and faithful, which also brings out this poems distinctiveness. Gascoigne’s clever use of
In “Sonnet XVII,” the text begins by expressing the ways in which the narrator does not love, superficially. The narrator is captivated by his object of affection, and her inner beauty is of the upmost significance. The poem shows the narrator’s utter helplessness and vulnerability because it is characterized by raw emotions rather than logic. It then sculpts the image that the love created is so personal that the narrator is alone in his enchantment. Therefore, he is ultimately isolated because no one can fathom the love he is encountering. The narrator unveils his private thoughts, leaving him exposed and susceptible to ridicule and speculation. However, as the sonnet advances toward an end, it displays the true heartfelt description of love and finally shows how two people unite as one in an overwhelming intimacy.
As a result of their impassioned love, the poem’s speaker and his lover transcend material constraints and the limitations of their low rank, as well feeling that they are at the center of the universe. Donne’s personification of the sun, his use of anti-courtier rhetoric that expands on the anti-authoritative sentiment directed at the sun, and his metaphysical conceit that raises the lovers above nobility and wealth, all reveal the transcendent quality of love.
Thomas Gray indited a poem that compares to other poems on prodigious levels of kindred attribute, with some differences. The structure of “Elegy Indited in a Country Churchyard” is homogeneous to the four line stanzas of other poetry encountered throughout this semester. Gray utilizes a homogeneous theme of time in his poem, likewise in Shakespeare’s sonnets and Donne’s “The Ecstasy”. Gray’s purport of imagery differs drastically from other poets.
The initial paragraph lures the reader into believing that this is a happy lover’s poem written to woo a woman with whom he is in love. The steady string of compliments mesh together very well and leave a warm and happy image of the pair’s relationship. The imagery is wonderful as well, as in this example: “My vegetable love should grow / Vaster than empires, and more slow” (Marvell 11-2). This sentence inspires a mental picture of a sweeping kingdom and all the vastness th...
•“I’m startled because beneath the conscious craft are glimpses of the split I even then experienced between the girl who wrote poems, who defined herself in writing poems, and the girl who was to define herself by her relationships with men” (632).
Sir Thomas Wyatt is credited as one of the first poets to bring the sonnet form into English literature, a form in which the speaker’s sincerity for, most commonly, a distant mysterious woman whom he loves, is believed to be the focal point of the poetry. From the selection of works which Wyatt wrote we can see many point in which the focal point is seemingly the earnestness of his love for his muse as authenticated by what he states in the poem itself. However, there is a sense of underlying meaning throughout his works which the reader must tease out themselves to see that that in fact is the focal point of his poetry.
Love poems are exceptionally amazing works of literature. Through these poems, we are able to achieve a greater cultural understanding of the Heian period. Indeed, we managed to also gain a deeper insight on the norms of society. Fortunately, these works were preserved until today, which allows for the admiration of modern readers around the world, as well as to let readers grasp a feeling of Heian life.
The Good Morrow, a poem written by John Donne, gives a vivid, detailed, narration of the form of love many of us drastically seek to unearth. The narrator of The Good Morrow demonstrates no sign of misogyny, and instead displays an appreciation for the virtue of his lover in such a way that the reader comprehends the depths of their romance. Moreover, by developing such narration, Donne exhibits a pure and hopeful love, one in which he inspires his readers to acquire. He encourages this exploration by writing only of the positive encounters with his mistress. Therefore, he does not display the true structural balance of a relationship like he does in his poem, Loves Growth, in which a relationship is balanced by the ups and downs of life, or as he mentions in Loves Growth, the seasons. Nevertheless, if Donne chose to display a balanced relationship in The Good Morrow, then the reader would be weary of entering a relationship and would unconsciously shield themselves from the pure