ENGL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Blazon, Holy Sonnets, Morning Dew
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Uses shocking metaphors flea biting them = mingling of body fluids. Possible to read in more complex ways. The long s f being the same as s . In the flea this is used replacing s with f hyperbole overstatement or extravagant exaggeration of fact or of possibility (abrams from the greek for overshooting making the impossible sound possible. Burns my love is like a red red rose . Sieze the day emphasizes that life is short and time is fleeting. We would sit down and think which way. To walk and pass our long love"s day. And the last age should show your heart; Now let us sport us while we may, Let us roll all our strength and all. Stand still, yet we will make him run. Flirtation is fine but flirtation wont get the job done, we aren"t in eternity were in temperity so we have to have sex now paraphrasing first lines of poem.