A Song (Absent from thee)
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- Created on: 15-05-17 13:59
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- A song (Absent from thee)
- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
- obsessed with free love and self-gratification
- one of the two wildest cavaliers
- "the Torments it deserves to try"
- cloaked reference to his sadomachistism
- "the Torments it deserves to try"
- lover of various mistresses
- abduction of wealthy heiress
- pretended to cure fertility issues
- experienced a religious conversion toward the end of his life and ordered his lewd poems to be burnt
- features
- typical bawdy restoration attitudes
- post-puritan restoration and libertine
- standard restoration song
- wrote many songs
- form and structure
- illusion of love song
- delivers a harsh message
- ambiguous
- self love
- self-gratification
- 4 quattrains
- iambic tetrameter
- ABAB rhyme scheme
- illusion of love song
- language
- cliché
- portrays insincere sentiments
- arrogant tone
- "I languish still"
- "from thine Arms then let me flie"
- let me go
- "tears my fixt Heart from my Love"
- love is painful
- unable to stay with one lover
- "wearied with a world of woe"
- mocking
- portrays insincere sentiments
- couched in religious imagery
- "the straying Fool"
- Judas
- "lest once more from that Heav'n"
- tender end
- idea of going to other women sullies the religious words and innocence
- "I fall on same base heart unblest"
- aware of lifestyle
- self pity
- acknowledging her constancy
- "Faithless to thee, False, unforgiv'n
- justifying his attitude
- "And lose my everlasting rest"
- hallowing
- forfeit
- self pity
- imagery throughout mimcs the relation between an errant sinner and God
- "the straying Fool"
- cliché
- other poems
- the Scrutiny
- freedom in love
- the Flea
- strong imagery
- Ae Fond kiss
- songs
- genuine vs insincere
- Remember
- the Scrutiny
- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
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