'no longer mourn for me when I am dead' Flashcards
title
- sums up poem
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No longer mourn for me when I am dead
- elegiac mood
- authenticity by FPPP
- contemplating death
Then you shall hear the surly sullen bell
- death knell
- sibilance : slows rhythm
Give warning to the world that I am fled
- bell announce the death
From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell;
- melancholy
- futility
- decomposition
Nay, if you read this line, remember not
- assertive
- decisive adamant tone
The hand that writ it; for I love you so,
- no need to mourn
- feels passionately to the earl
That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot,
- forget the love they shared
- focused on leaving him behind
If thinking on me then should make you woe.
- focused on mortality
- replaces feelings of affection with woe
O, if (I say) you look upon this verse,
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When I (perhaps) compounded am with clay,
- do not attempt to remember or mourn
Do not so much as my poor name rehearse,
- memory to die when he does
But let your love even with my life decay,
- self-sacrifice theme
- sense of pathos
- no pain or sorrow
- parenthesis : not to be presumptuous
Lest the wise world should look into your moan,
- determined to stop the pain
- associated with grief
And mock you with me after I am gone.
- no desire to face mockery
- clandestine affairs
- mood of pathos