No Longer Mourn for Me Poem Analysis and Summary (IEB Poetry)
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Course
English Home Language
Institution
12
A detailed line by line summary and analysis of the poem No Longer Mourn for Me (Sonnet 71). This poem is assessed as part of the grade 12 IEB syllabus.
Sonnet 71, No Longer Mourn for Me – Shakespeare
· Structure: Shakespearean sonnet (abab cdcd ef ef gg)
· Speaker does not want the reader to f eel sad af ter he has died
· Irony: Shakespeare was one of the most f amous writers ever, and he is asking not to be
remembered
· As soon as the church bell stops ringing, people
1 No longer mourn for me when I am dead must stop mourning f or him
· Church bell: rung to annonce someone’s passing
2 Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell · Speaker doesn’t like earth and the people on it –
he views it as disgusting
· Diction: shows how he is nonchalant about death
3 Give warning to the world that I am fled · The world is not where he wants to spend eternity
· Alliteration: creates a lyrica tempo, higlisgts the
From this vile world with vilest worms to morose/depressed tone by slowing down the
4
dwell; rhythm of the poem
5 Nay, if you read this line, remember not · If the reader reads the poem, he must not
remember who wrote it – will make him sad again
6 The hand that writ it; for I love you so, and bring back emotions related to the speaker’s
7 That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, death
· Speaker would rather that the reader f orgets
8 I f thinking on me then should make you woe. about him, than remember him in sadness
9 O, if (I say) you look upon this verse, · Speaker doesn’t want the reader to grieve –
theref ore must not even say his name af ter he
10 When I (perhaps) compounded am with clay, has died
11 Do not so much as my poor name rehearse, · Compounded with clay: buried
· Speaker says that the reader must f orget about
12 But let your love with my life decay, him in the same way that his body is decaying
· Speaker is worries that the world will mock the
Lest the wise world should look into your reader f or grieving
13
moan, · THEORY (CANNOT USE AS TRUTH) –
Shakespeare was gay (the world does not accept
gay people)
· The speaker is portraying himself to be self less,
14 And mock you with me after I am gone.
when in reality he is actually quite self ish – he
does not want the world to mock his name
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