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Summary If thou must love me and My secret
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- English Matric
- Institution
- King David High School Linksfield
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Feminist/ conditonal If thou must love me My secretpoems
Title Subordinate clause, setni The title is siinificant for the
up conditions of how she emphasis now placed on the
wants to be loved idea of possession. ‘my’ is a
possessive adjective and
positions the secret as
somethini controlled and
precious to the speaker. It up
to the reader to decide what
the secret is.
Message The messaie is that love The key point of the poem is
needs to be conditional and not to try and unravel what
temporal ( time-bound) the specific secret is, but
somethini of spirituality and rather comment on the
eternality power of writini and the
‘nonsense’ of it. The need
for a person to keep
somethinis private in their
lives.
Tone The tone is adamant and Theirs a kind of
confident deliihtulness, and
playfulness it is tantalisini to
an extent.
Dicton Uses a lot of metaphors like Uses imaiery of winter to
“trick” – fraud/ deception show the harshness of
Uses “wrouiht” somethini society.
bent into shape. The use of The mask she wears to hide
this description is to show and protect herself
their love needs to be as How she doesn’t even trust
stroni metal hammered into sprini.
shape, but if not founded on ( could link to poem as a
the riiht basis can break. paintini as well)- how it’s up
A lot of personification. – to our own interpretation.
“loves sake” and “loves
eternity” how love should be
everlastini and forever.
Structure It is a hybrid sonnet, the Positions the relationship of
rhyme scheme of an Italian the speaker and reader, with
sonnet and like an Italian a dramatic monoloiue,
sonnet it raises a problem on Uses a lot of personal
loved based on temporal pronouns and possessive
aspects and the solution to adjectives iives a sense of
love spiritually. However the individuality
Enilish sonnet/ Elizabethan She uses caesura to iive the
iives it the diferent reader time to refect and
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