147 My love is as a fever, longing still

Question 1

Summarise:

1 quatrain

2 quatrain

3 quatrain

Couplet

Answer 1

1. Conceit - love as a fever. Seeks to feed itself, but because bad feeds on bad things. These bad things are pleasing his love.
2. In opposition is reason. Continue conceit, as doctor. Allegorically, because acting counter to reason, reason has left, so therefore love is death as it brings death - kind of hyperbolic
3. Past cure, is mad
4. Proven because sworn that lover is petrarchan beauty, when she is the opposite

Question 2

Tone:

Answer 2

Bad thing, nto that love better because real, but sinful and deadly because bodily

Question 3

Analyse quatrain 1

Answer 3

• ‘fever’
• ‘longing still/’
  
  • enjambment - mimetic
• ‘Th’ uncertain sickly appetite to please’
  
  • Line pushes forward, mimetic of desire

Question 4

Analyse quatrain 2 sonnet 147

Answer 4

• Reason = physician
• ‘angry’
  
  • Trochee
  • Turns against him
• ‘and I desperate now approve

Desire is death,’

* Hyperbole - more like leads to death, but without reason may as well

Question 5

Analyse quatrain 3 sonnet 147

Answer 5

Sets up madness for final quatrain

Question 6

Analyse the couplet of sonnet 147

Answer 6

• Proves he is mad because lying about lover - anti-Petrarchan
• Is this the volta? A lover’s suffering because he has become deluded, but is self-consciously deluded, but follows delusions anyway - conflict of love