Flashcards
Song - Lady Mary Wroth
Flashcards do conjunto (11)
- 1"Love is a child ever crying"Personification and metaphor: Love is demanding and ungrateful like a child
With proper nurture, it can grow well
Love only causes sorrow
(Wroth's own child died)
Contrast with 'Cupid' also seen as a baby -Love isn't what you expect it to be
'crying': Love will never result in happiness - 2"His desires have no measure"Love is selfish: Keeps wanting more
Links with "never satisfied with having" and "slighter are his gifts, his favours lighter" Repetition of sentiment shows Wroth is fixed in her beliefs.
Wife is usually taken advantage of - 3"What he promiseth he breaketh"Inconsistent
Breaks his vows, connotes to sin
We should not retain hope or trust in love
Links to breaking his vows of marriage
and commitments - 4Repetition of words like "nothing" and "never"Wroth has a wholly negative view on love
- 5Future tense (stanza 3)Love is predictable
- 6"Feathers are as firm in staying, Wolves no fiercer in their preying"Juxtaposition between feathers and wolves. Describes the deceitfulness of love (Appears as soft and delicate as feather, but is actually a wild wolf)
Compares love of men to wolves, wild beasts, which are cruel and ruthless - 7"Nor seek him so given to flying"Last line, and word 'flying' implies love is volatile, and will quickly leave you for another, so do not go after love
Repetition of 'flying' and 'crying' like 1st stanza, symbolizes is an endless, boring, predictable loop of selfishness - 8Enjambment, Caesura, Enjambment (Stanza 4)Love is impractical
- 9ContextUnhappy marriage
Husband died, leaving her in debt
Child died soon after, causing sorrow, and her losing her estate
17th century, men were harsh on women - 10ToneAdvising, warning and confident
- 11StructureAABB - Love is predictable and boring
Wroth is fixed in her opinions
Sense of control (emphasized, with end-stop quatrains) gives poem a 'contained' and 'claustrophobic' feeling:
Love is loss of freedom
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- Here are my annotations for Song... Good luck in your GCSE! =) * Some credit given to Tamara Majevadia for their amazing flashcards!
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