Instructions: Read Sonnet 6, “Fair is my love, and cruel as she’s fair” do close

reading analysis. In a well-written essay, analyze how Daniel’s depicts the

power of love
analyze________________________________________.
TIP:
When you write the introduction, make sure that you commit to what the poem means and proceed to
show how evidence from the poem substantiates this view.

Introduction must include:

1. Poem background—what is poem about?
2. Thesis Statement – a declarative sentence that states the point that you are trying to make and
the devices that contribute to it.

Example:

In “poem, “author portrays _____________ as ______________. Elaborate

Or
“Poem” illustrates the universal experience that the loneliness of old age is _____________________.

Show the reader how (don’t forget the devices) and why you reached this
conclusion.
Delia
Sonnet VI. Fair is my love, and cruel as she’s fair
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619)

FAIR is my love, and cruel as she’s fair:

Her brow shades frowns, although her eyes are sunny;
Her smiles are lightening, though her pride despair;
And her disdains are gall, her favours honey.
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A modest maid, decked with a blush of honour,
Whose feet do tread green paths of youth and love;
The wonder of all eyes that look upon her:
Sacred on earth, designed a saint above,
Chastity and Beauty, which were deadly foes,
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Live reconcilèd friends within her brow:
And had she Pity, to conjoin with those;
Then who had heard the plaints I utter now?
O had she not been fair, and thus unkind;
My Muse had slept, and none had known my mind!
 Close Reading Analysis
Delia 46: Let others sing of knights and paladins

Let others sing of knights and paladins

In aged accents and untimely words;
Paint shadows in imaginary lines
Which well the reach of their high wits records:
But I must sing of thee, and those fair eyes
Authentic shall my verse in time to come,
When yet th' unborn shall say, “Lo where she lies
Whose beauty made him speak that else was dumb.”
These are the arks, the trophies I erect,
That fortify thy name against old age;
And these thy sacred virtues must protect
Against the dark, and time's consuming rage.
Though th' error of my youth they shall discover,
Suffice they show I liv'd and was thy lover

Sonnets to Delia - Sonnet 31

Raysing my hopes on hills of high desire,

Thinking to scale the heaven of her hart,

My slender meanes presum'd too high a part;

Her thunder of disdaine forst me retyre,

And threw mee downe to paine in all this fire,

Where, loe, I languish in so heavie smart,

Because th'attempt was farre above my arte:

Her pride brook'd not poore soules shold come so nie her

Yet I protest my high aspyring will

Was not to dispossesse her of her right:

Her soveraignty should have remained still,

I onely sought the blisse to have her sight

Her sight, contented thus to see me spill,

BY SAMUEL DANIEL