We can sense this recitation speeding up and becoming less coherent as the speaker needs to wrap it up. Your words, my friend, right healthful caustics, blame My young mind marred, whom love doth windlass so That mine own writings like bad servants show, My wits, quick in vain thoughts, in virtue lame; That Plato I read for nought, but if he tame Such coltish gyres; that to my birth I owe Nobler desires, lest else that friendly foe, Great expectation, wear a train of shame.
For since mad March great promise made of me, If now the May of my years much decline, What can be hoped my harvest time will be? This one parallels Sonnet 18 rather closely, for instance with the auditor there turning into a medical doctor here , and the reference to reading Plato anticipates Sonnet Every critical argument against the infatuation listed here is found in one or more of the sonnets nearby.
The auditor of Sonnet 18 has turned into a medical doctor here, at least for the first line. The wise friend is described at the end of the poem as well-spoken and a deep mine of wisdom and learning; the complexity of the single sentence that makes up the octave would seem to reflect this description.
A rough outline of its dependencies looks like:. Your words. It was used to refer to any sort of mechanical device, and specifically to 1 the winding mechanism on a cross-bow, 2 a trap or snare used in hunting, or 3 an instrument of torture; so any or all of these are plausible images of what love is doing to the speaker.
And just incidentally, Sidney is bragging on the art of his own sonnets, while questioning their virtue and wisdom. Either way, the argument is not getting through to the speaker, of course. Some lovers speak, when they their Muses entertain, Of hopes begot by fear, of wot not what desires, Of force of heavenly beams, infusing hellish pain, Of living deaths, dear wounds, fair storms and freezing fires. To some a sweetest plaint a sweetest style affords, While tears pour out his ink, and sighs breathe out his words, His paper pale despair, and pain his pen doth move.
Recently viewed 0 Save Search. Your current browser may not support copying via this button. Subscriber sign in You could not be signed in, please check and try again. Username Please enter your Username. Password Please enter your Password. Forgot password? Don't have an account? This love feel I, that feel no love in this. What all of these oxymorons convey is the strange, maddening mixture of feelings that constitutes Petrarchan desire and that continues to structure the way we think about love to this day.
I encourage you to read the rest of the poem to see how McKay processes this oxymoronic love and, in a related sense, how he breathes new life into a very old genre.
Yeats' poem " Easter ," which describes the Easter Uprising in Ireland, includes a oxymoronic refrain "terrible beauty. Writing Prompt: What does Yeats mean by this oxymoron? How can beauty be terrible?
And how does the oxymoron help to reflect the sudden change he mentions throughout the poem? A Treatise of Melancholie. London: Thomas Vautrollier, Constable , Henry. The praises of his Mistres, in certaine sweete Sonnets, by H.
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