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Love's FarewellElizabethan sonnet:
- iambic pentameter
- 3 quatrains & rhyming
Michael Drayton (1563-1631) couplet
dismissive tone; love can't be saved.
SINCE there's no help, come let us kiss and part,—
first stanza is apostrophe, person is not present
The situation is hopeless; there is no solution explanation following dash.
Nay I have done, you get no more of me; identifying relationship problem.
addressing the unrequited love, he is done with the relationship and the decision is final
And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart,
odd response. repetition of 'glad' emphasises how happy he is to leave this relationship
That thus so cleanly I myself can free;
wants complete freedom. There is little hope that he will revive this love in
the future. he wants a new beginning.
Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows,
two meanings: mutual civil decision OR finalising permanence
lacking in emotion; such a civil and formal farewell
to forget is impossible
the memories will still remain
civil tone, cold
And when we meet at any time again,
he wants them to forget all that they shared and all that was intimate
if they happen to see each other again
Be it not seen in either of our brows 'brows' is a synechdoche. the brow
represents the face as a whole and is
referring to their facial expressions.
That we one jot of former love retain.
there will be no evidence from their facial expressions that they every loved each
other (this is not realistic; you can't forget how you once felt about a love) They will
extreme peak of emotional experience.
not be glad to see one another- they will not miss each other.
*TONE CHANGE*
Now at the last gasp of love's latest breath,
urgency
when love stops breathing
PERSONIFICATION:
the speaker explains
When his pulse failing, passion speechless lies, how his love is at edge
of death to express
when love's heart stops beating and he can no longer speak the seriousness of his
When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, departure and how
his love becomes less
somber, poignant tone
And innocence is closing up his eyes,
and less intense with
every line.
sibilance- replaces the plosive p sound, and demonstrates
how his love is quietly dying
solution is in the
hands of his
beloved who with
—Now if thou would'st, when all have given him over,
present 11 syllables, he can't sum his words up her powerful
emotion can
make the dying
He had no hope of recovery, but now he says that there is a possibility love active and
to bring the love to life again from death. But it is her choice.
From death to life thou might'st him yet decover! living again.
DRAMATIC
IRONY
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