Love's Farewell Flashcards
1
Q
Since there’s no help, come let us kiss part,–
A
- the relationship is over (no given reason to us)
- written in the first person
- non-negotiable
2
Q
Nay have I done, you get no more of me;
A
- pause and thought before this reaffirmation
3
Q
And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart,
A
- He asserts that there is no emotional attachment
- he is pleased by the end of the relationship
4
Q
That thus so cleanly I myself can free;
A
- we wants the bonds of the relationship to be broken without emotion
5
Q
Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows,
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- He uses commands here
- formality of the separation
6
Q
And when we meet at any time again,
A
- no emotional displays
7
Q
Be it not seen in either of our brows
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- no visible signs of regret
8
Q
That we one jot of former love retain.
A
- no visible sign of regret
9
Q
Now at the last gasp of love’s latest breath,
A
- personification used to convey a person dying as the end of their relationship
- love seen as helpless and frail
- dying throes of their love
- shift in tone to regret and vulnerability
10
Q
When his pulse failing, passion speechless lies,
A
- image of the last moments of a person’s life
- passion has been rendered helpless
11
Q
When faith is kneeling by his bed of death,
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- faith as an onlooker that is powerless
12
Q
And innocence is closing up his eyes,
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- the loss of innocence over his belief that their love would endure
13
Q
–Now if thou would’st, when all have given him over,
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- dash conveys a pause
- last moment before death
14
Q
From death to life thou might’st him yet recover!
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- he still believes there is a possibility or restoring their relationship
- Exclamation mark displays conviction in an appeal to take action on this accord
15
Q
Overview
A
- Elizabethan Sonnet
- first octave represents the departing of love
- the second sestet represents the change in mindset towards the possibility of love
