ENGL 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Gout, Courtly Love, Paresis
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Pled to be left alone with the lovers. The narrator and the lover want to be a world on their own. For god"s sake hold you tongue, and let me love . Gout + palsy + five gray hairs . Illusion to personal disaster in donne"s life. Father in law put him in prison. Get a place in the court and become his favour. The end of the second stanza is the beloved first introduce. Addressing someone who is questioning his love. Introduced later make the poem more effective. The beloved might hurt someone else but no the speaker hurting someone. How and where they are brought together. If not history can prove our love, sonnet can do so. Well wrought urn half acre tombs . Great ashes don"t need half-acre tombs but urn will do. None of the lovers speak or act in the first three poems.
