Ghazal Analysis
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- Ghazal
- Similar to a sonnet
- About securing the love and attention of another
- One sided love
- Made up of couplets
- End of each couplet rhymes
- Extensive use of metaphors
- Exploring relationship between speaker and the one they love
- Pair of items that compliment each other
- Two sides of relationship being like "rhyme" and "refrain"
- Two lovers being part of a larger whole
- Connects two through poetry and creativity
- Speaker is "refrain" and lover is "rhyme"
- Two lovers being part of a larger whole
- Fourth stanza: reference to "spell" hints at powerful magic of love
- Ability to transform and change
- If I am the laurel leaf in your crown, you arethe arms around my bark, arms that never knew me
- Metaphor of speaker as leaf from tree. Only contact with loved one is through tree bark
- Character appears to have low self esteem
- Lover worthy of laurel crowns
- Character is a leaf in crown
- Character appears to have low self esteem
- Lover worthy of laurel crowns
- Character is a leaf in crown
- Character is a leaf in crown
- Lover worthy of laurel crowns
- Character appears to have low self esteem
- Character is a leaf in crown
- Lover worthy of laurel crowns
- What shape should I take to marry your own, have you- hawk to my shadow, moth to my flame - pursue me?
- Use of "marry" is pun, meaning to "match up"
- Destructive nature of feelings
- Frequent reference to the idea that a lover can complete a person
- Natural imagery of pairs that enhance each other
- Physical closeness
- Love and longing can be both positive and negative
- "yours is the iron fist in the velvet glove"
- "mine is the venomous tongue.../charmer, use your charm"
- Contrasting images that reflect the pleasure and pain of love.
- "yours is the iron fist in the velvet glove"
- Contrasting images that reflect the pleasure and pain of love.
- Compare to "In Paris With You" and "The Farmers Bride"
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