Holy Sonnet XIX (O, to vex me)
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- Created on: 20-04-15 15:16
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- Holy Sonnet XIX (O, to vex me)
- O, to vex me, contraries meet in one;
- despair
- trochaic pentameter - frustrated
- starts and finishes on heavy stress
- catalectic foot
- Inconstancy unnaturally hath begot/ A constant habit, that when I would not/ I change in vows and in devotion.
- irony in the constancy of inconstant feeling
- religious puns
- apostacy
- against his own will.
- As humorous in my contrition/ As my profane love, and as soon forgot;/
- humours are supposed to be balanced
- contrition = feeling remorseful and penitent
- constant changes - like humours
- profane love = worldly love - sounds like he is quite experienced
- I durst not view heaven yesterday, and today/ In prayers and flattering speeches I court God;
- he feels insincere and unworthy? his changing approach to belief and religion.
- Tomorrow I quake with true fear of His rod.
- predicting this. completeness shows a feeling of certainty
- Old testament God.
- romantic relationship
- So my devout fits come and go away/ Like a fantastic ague, save that here/ Those are my best days when I shake with fear.
- continual inconsistancy
- fantastical sickness
- Untitled
- best when he's scared because it shows his belief. very ironic.
- As riddlingly distempered, cold and hot,/ As praying, as mute, as infinite, as none.
- dwindles down
- as x 7 = trapped and cornered self with changing emotions.
- O, to vex me, contraries meet in one;
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