Holy Sonnet III
- Created by: eleanorfarnold
- Created on: 14-04-15 11:24
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- Holy Sonnet III
- O might those sighs and tears return again/ Into my breast and eyes, Which I have spent,
- starts with despair
- typical petrarchan imagery
- image of a debtor
- That I might in this holy discontent/ Mourn with some fruit, as I have mourned in vain;
- holy/wholey
- wished he had something to take away from this - some pleasure
- In mine idolatry what showers of rain/ Mine eyes did waste? What griefs my heart did rent?
- his sins were painful
- rhetorical questions add a sense of pointlessness
- rent refers to heart being torn apart
- That sufferance was my sin I now repent;/ Because I did suffer, I must suffer pain.
- repetition of suffering closes him in
- ideolising a woman
- Th'hydroptic drunkard and night-scouting thief, The itchy lecher and self-tickling proud/ Have the rememberance of past joys for relief/ Of coming ills.
- at least they enjoyed their sins
- they can say they achieved something
- images of movement - quite comic - is he seriously upset?
- the volta
- To (poor) me is allowed/ No ease; for long yet vehement grief hath been/ Th'effect and cause, the punishment and sin.
- comic self pity
- never ending suffering - closed images ideas of negative completion
- typical love conceits but absence of specific bodies.
- O might those sighs and tears return again/ Into my breast and eyes, Which I have spent,
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