Summary Of For That He Looked Not Upon Her By George Gascoigne

In analyzing the woman’s experience, the tone of the poem principally informs its paradoxical nature. For, while the notion of passion is conventionally associated with powerful and overwhelming emotion, the speaker’s tone is consistently calm and subdued when alluding to it. As evidence of this, one must recall the manner in which she establishes her sexual desire for her anonymous lover:

He uses words with negative connotations such as louring, low, and no delight. Gascoigne chooses to use words with such negative connotations to show the speakers negative attitude, as well as to show that he is feeling down. The author also uses such word choice that helps to keep the rhyme scheme in order as an iambic pentameter. Gascoigne also uses figures of speech such as metaphors “the mouse that has once hath broken out of trap” line 5 and “The scorched fly which once hath ‘scaped the flame” line 9. These metaphors reveal the speaker's pain and how he has been hurt in the past but no longer will fall for the same bait and be hurt again. It reveals the speaker's attitude in the sense that he is learning and that he is no longer naive and will not fall for the same traps and give in to his desires only to be shut down and hurt by the girl

In For That He Looked Not upon Her, George Gascoigne uses several literary devices to bring his poem together in a way that makes the point of it clear. He also uses these devices to show the deeper meaning behind his words. Of many, three of the devices used prominently throughout his work is form, diction, and imagery. All pulled together the author is able to clearly portray a betrayed tone towards the subject of the poem.

In George Gascoigne’s “For That He Looked Not upon Her”, the English poet emphasizes in his poem using a variety of intense images and diction to show that he can’t look at the one he loves. He structures his poem to have a rhyme scheme, so he can show readers the emotional experience he had with his problems and express it throughout the poem.

The poem’s structure as a sonnet allows the speaker’s feelings of distrust and heartache to gradually manifest themselves as the poem’s plot progresses. Each quatrain develops and intensifies the speaker’s misery, giving the reader a deeper insight into his convoluted emotions. In the first quatrain, the speaker advises his former partner to not be surprised when she “see[s] him holding [his] louring head so low” (2). His refusal to look at her not only highlights his unhappiness but also establishes the gloomy tone of the poem. The speaker then uses the second and third quatrains to justify his remoteness; he explains how he feels betrayed by her and reveals how his distrust has led him

This poem “For That He Looked Not upon Her” is by George Gascoigne. In this poem, different types of devices are used to create the speakers sad, lonely attitude. Imagery, diction and the alliteration used by the speaker shows his tone, attitude of the poem.

In the resulting couplet, he says he “wink or else hold down my head, because your blazing eyes my bale have bred”(13-14). Using this couplet, Gascoigne concludes the answer to the immense question portrayed in the beginning of the work. Concluding that he is afraid to look at her because he does not want to fall in love with her again.

Edna St. Vincent Millay invokes a deep tone of regret between a couple of past lovers in two penitent poems; however, the poems deviate from each other in regards to the tones the speakers use to convey their repentance. The speaker’s tone in “I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently” can be seen as lustful while the speaker in “Time Does Not Bring Relief; You All Have Lied” has a frustrated tone.

The speaker uses words such as “louring” (line 2), “deep deceit” (line 8), “grievous” (line 11) and “bale” (line 140. All of these words have sorrowful and despairing meanings to them which gives the whole poem an unhappy tone. The third and fourth lines discus that the speaker cannot even look at the beautiful face, which appears to grow more attractive daily, of the woman he loves. Moreover, the couplet tells the readers that the sorrow in the speaker’s eyes is there because of the pain he has felt due to his faulty relationship. The mouse that “lies aloof for fear of more mishap” (line 7) shows the misery felt by the speaker by using the words “aloof” and “mishap”. “Aloof” means to be stand-offish or reserved, which the speaker is because if he gets too close, he will be hurt again. “Mishap” means disaster or unfortune which altogether sounds miserable. Had the speaker used diction that was lighter or less depressed, the reader truly would not understand the misery the speaker has went through. The miserable diction depicts the deep wounds the speaker received from his love, shedding light to how much he really loved her and how bad she really hurt

Poems are expressed emotions and thoughts of individuals. The description of the author George Gascoigne from “For That he Looked Not Upon Her” is described as a lonely men who has been disappointed about love. The poem develops the complex attitude of the author from suffering a love experience and expressing a solemn tone, with an attitude of not being able to move forward. The Renaissance Era brings the theme of love and beauty, just like other spanish literature sonnets who talk about the beauty sculpture of a women.

Karr has learned that while evils can be tempting and seem positive, they are negative overall. Lastly, when the person’s life is being repeated in the poem, it shows, “... the red eyes of a friend you cursed...” (Karr). The thought of a “friend” conveys positive connotations of comfort, acceptance, and joy. In contrast, the image of “red eyes” implies despair and melancholy.

The imagery conjures thoughts of gorgeous petals, yet we often forget about the prickly stem on which the rose sits. This word is used in both, the first and third stanzas, to depict the beautiful woman who the narrator falls in love with. Her beautiful face and body allure him into affection, leading him to overlook her harsh ‘thorns’. Ironically rose also suggests favourable, comfortable, or easy circumstances, a definition that is the complete opposite of what the unattainable lover instigates in the narrator’s life. The speaker also uses words such as ‘cathedral’, ‘ring’, and ‘clergy’ in the second stanza, to implicitly state that he proposes to the beautiful lover, and is denied many times. In the third stanza, Larkin’s creative use of the word ‘snaps’ in describing the pictures of his lover he carries around. Instead of simply calling them pictures or photographs, he substitutes a word that resembles what the woman in the picture did to his heart! In the last lines of the first stanza the speaker ends with ‘But it was the friend I took out’, considering he rambles on about how beautiful and great her friend is, it is confusing and ironic that he chooses the girl in ‘specs’. The speaker continues on in the second stanza and says ‘I believe I met beautiful twice’ the uncertainty of how many times he met her is not genuine and is only meant to look like he does not consider or remember how many times they met, when realistically

Conversely, the rest of the poem, “ If ought she missed in her new day, of amplitude, or awe –or first prospective – or the gold in using wear away, It lay unmentioned – as the sea develop pearl, and weed, but to himself – be known the fathoms they abide—“ the dictionary refers to “amplitude” as an extreme or phenomenon and the word “awe” as wonder, and as it refers to “prospective” as something expected to come about, like being a future mother. The words helped understand the woman’s losses and gains of marriage. Nevertheless, normal progress of a typical wife seen after a length of time.

emotion into words. In T.S. Eliot’s, “The Love-Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” he starts off the poem by giving an introduction into the characters world. Although love is an emotion that can’t easily be explained, it is some sort of other growing emotions; whether it’d be sadness or happiness. Through the authors use of metaphors, tone, and imagery for the narration of Prufrock, he’s giving the reader an inside look into Prufrock’s shy, and insecure personality.

The poem “ The Lies of Spring” , gave us a feeling of seeing how they create this sort of poem like structure, imagery, visual; stuff that make us wanting to read more about poems. The Lies of Spring creates this sort of mood when, her husband fell and disappeared into the water; the women's mood didn't change. Because the poem didn't show what she felt when she saw what was happening; what I'm trying to says is that the woman's mood did not change because the author from the poem didn't show what she was feeling, when she saw what was happening when the man disappear. I felt like the narrator was showing us the memory of the women for Ex: “ You once told me: this flower is the first sign of spring”. Meaning that she recall of the man that