Comprehensive notes covering No Longer Mourn For Me When I Am Dead by William Shakespeare.
A combination of information from the textbook, The Complete Poetry Resource (Sixth Edition), as well as additional class and video notes.
Written by an 85% < English HL Student
Don’t be sad
No Longer Mourn For Me When I Am Dead “s” alliteration (sense of menace)
No longer mourn for me when I am dead sullen – sour or sad
Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell death nell = a bell that would be rung to
Give warning to the world that I am fled announce that you are dead
From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell; “v” and “w” alliteration
Tone: No positivity
In the grave
Nay, if you read this line, remember not Ironic as writing this sonnet makes you
The hand that writ it; for I love you so, remember him (“r” alliteration)
That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot,
Universal
Loves him so much, that do not want
If thinking on me then should make you woe. him to be sad
Tone: Melancholy
O!, I say, you look upon this verse, Euphemism = say in a softer way
When I perhaps compounded am with clay, “c” alliteration
Do not so much as my poor name rehearse, Direct instruction: your love must die
But let your love even with my life decay, and rot with my body, allowing you to
Twist
move on
Lest the wise world should look into your moan, An odd ending
And mock you with me after I am gone. Does not want people to mock WH
regarding Shakespeare’s death
Wants to protect him as he really cares
about him
Shakespearean Sonnet
14 lines with 10 syllables in each line
Iambic pentameter
3 quatrains (1 – 4, 5 – 8, 9 – 12)
1 rhyming couplet (13 & 14)
Rhyming pattern: abab cdcd efef gg
Line 5 and 6
= Synecdoche
“This line” represent the entire poem.
“The hand” represents the entire poet.
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