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Sonnet 147
Sonnet 147
NUR NAZLIN BINTI RASLAN 2008411216 FARAH NAJWA BINTI MUHAMAH PADEL 2008411286
SONNET ANALYSIS
y Suggests love as a sickness- through fever, disease, ill, y y y y
physician, prescription, death, and cure . This sonnet is about the speaker who is infatuated with his love. The speaker compares his desire / love to fever. In the past time, people think that we get fever through food. So, the speaker tries to say that if we keep on feeding, it will preserve the ill. So does the desire.
think and reason) would at least keep him aware of the efficacy of keeping body and soul together. Unfortunately, the speaker is unable to control his obsessive desire. y Even if the desire could kill him, he will keep on loving. He thinks his obsession cannot be cured. y The speaker becomes like a madman because of his desire as he cannot think and speak as usual. He no longer possesses the capacity for rational thought, because of his irrational longing. y The speaker cannot see the truth about his lover. He was sure that his lover was lovely and good but it is not.
THEMES
1.
My thoughts and my discourse as madmen's are The poets love is driving him out of his mind. He is imagining things and babbling like a madman. He no longer knows what he is saying or if his thoughts have any meaning.
2.
Desire is a disease - My love is as a fever, longing still, For that which longer nurseth the disease - The poets love keeps him desiring and to be more sick. - The poet relates his desire as a disease with the words disease, nurseth, fever and ill
LITERARY DEVICES
y DICTION
- the use of Old English language - thee,express'd and nurseth. y SIMILE - My love is as a fever - My thoughts and my discourse as madmen's are -Who art as black as hell, as dark as night
y METAPHOR
clearly
y SYMBOLISM