Song: Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?
Sir John Suckling - ✅✅ A. This poem is about a love sick friend who is hopelessly, and pathetically in love
... [Show More] with a girl who is no longer in the picture. The speaker of the poem points out his pointless misery and attempts to convince his friend to get over her and move on with his life.
B. Repetition: In stanza one, "why so pale" and in stanza two "why so mute", Suckling repeats these three times to emphasize the pointlessness of his friends misery.
Rhetorical questions: In stanza one and two Suckling asks a series of rhetorical questions such as "Looking ill prevail" and "Saying nothing do't? To highlight the lovers idiotic position.
C. The friend of the lover
D. The tone of the poem is frustration due to the lovers pathetic position and inability to move on, but then shifts into sympathy in the last stanza as the lovers friend attempts to lift his spirits.
E.
F. "Why so pale and wan. Fond lover?"
"Why so dull and mute, young sinner?"
"Quit, quit, for shame; this will not move."
"Nothing can make her; the devil take her!"
What Thing Is Love?
George Peele - ✅✅ A. The poem deals with Peele reflecting on what love is. It focuses on the oxymoronic associations of beauty/joy and pain/misery.
B. Personification: Peele personifies love as Cupid in the poem. He gives love a godly power that can be controlled for good or misused. He is giving love a power to control and overpower a person and to take over their heart (in a good or bad way).
Metaphors: The metaphors also help give power and strength to what love is. In lines 4 and 5, love is compared to a "fire" (steamy and romantic) and a "coal" (fuel of life) and then is told to be a "flame" that "creeps in at every hole" meaning that it affects every part of you.
Contrast: The entire poem has constant contrasts to show you the good and bad side of love. It is emphasizing that love is more than the "pretty thing", it is also a "sting".
Poem Structure: The poem structure is important because the entire poem is one stanza. The stanza is meant to represent a continuous thought, starting with a rhetorical question, we continue to a contrast and an answer to the question all in one swift motion with two semicolons to represent reflection over the answer.
C. George Peele
D. The tone of the poem is calm and reflective.
E.
F. "It is a prick, it is a sting, it is a pretty, pretty thing;"
"Love's dwelling is in ladies' eyes, from whence do glance love's piercing darts"
Sonnet 11
Lady Mary Wroth - ✅✅ A. The sequence is about a girl expressing her feelings after her lover has been unfaithful. However, I think the strength of the expression of these extreme emotions indicate that she has experienced this kind of emotional destruction personally. I think this poem is directly about her anger and misery at Queen Anne making her love impossible, depriving her of her man.
B. Rhetorical Questions: Repeated, bitter questioning of Love's motives and actions show her anger and an almost helpless lashing out. The third of these contains the implied threat of suicide if she continues to have to deal with these feelings. [Show Less]