sonnet 29 (pity me not)
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- Created on: 02-06-19 08:53
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- Sonnet 29
- Structure
- sadness through monosyllables
- typical shakesperean sonnet, 14 lines, set rhyme scheme, 3 rhymed quatrains + a couplet
- iambic pentameter, stress on PITY me not
- rhyme disturbed in the same way she has been
- Tone
- quite melancholy, but also realistic when it comes to love
- comparing cycles in nature to cycles of romance
- quite melancholy, but also realistic when it comes to love
- Content
- Speaker recognises and accepts that her lover no longer loves her, and she says she has always known this is the fleeting, fickle way o flove
- Purpose
- poet is telling herself off for the disconnect between her heart and her mind
- Analysis
- First quatrain
- nature metaphors for hushed desire of man (close of day, waning of moon, ebbing tide (in OCTET)
- extended metaphor, comparing love to ever-changing aspects of nature
- she should not be pitied because: the light of love has been extinguished, because beauty fades in the fields over time, and so does love
- Second quatrain
- she should not be pitied because the moon is not as bright/ big as it has been, just like their love
- uses pronoun 'you'- clear she is directly talking to her former lover. touching emotional nakedness and intimacy
- doesn't want lover to pity her because the desire and love he once felt for her has fled. she explicitly yells him not to pity her
- lines 7-8: mood alters, octave ends with a full stop, like a door closing
- Third quatrain
- moving on, evanescence, building love on a 'shifting shore'
- vulnerability, yet great power of being in love
- pessimism/ cynical way of looking at love
- love is like a delicate flower beaten by wind, like the tide on the shore that must return back to the ocean, the wreckage that appears after a strong wind, IT MUST BE BROKEN
- Heroic couplet
- distinct change in the poem
- requesting to be pitied for her heart not learning what her mind knew all along
- time is ticking, nothing lasts forever, especially love
- First quatrain
- Structure
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