Song To: Celia By Ben Jonson

By Leonardo Albertini and Michael Perez.

“Song: To Celia” By Ben Jonson• Theme: Love, unrequited love, obsession.• An obsessive lover, who is not corresponded,

admires the beauty of a woman and places her above everything and everyone else, even the Gods.

• Speaker: An infatuated man who is deeply in love with the physical beauty of this woman and is not corresponded.

• Subject: A woman that is not aware of this man’s infatuation, therefore not returning his affection and admiration.

• Length: 4 Quadrants.

Stylistic Devices:• Tone: Enamored, Infatuated, Obsessed.• Example: “I would not change for thine.” The

speaker raises this woman above everything and considers her beauty and love to be more powerful than the gods. Effect: The speaker creates this tone to indicate how men are often driven by beauty rather than character and personality.

• Metaphor:• Example -“The thirst that from the soul doth rise”.

Effect: Compares his desperation to thirst, as if he was dying because he can’t get the girl’s attention.

“And leave a kiss but in the cup, And I’ll not look for wine.”“As giving it a hope that there It could not withered be.”

Quotes:

“Come Live with me, and be my Love.”

By Christopher Marlowe

“Come Live with me, and be my Love.” By Christopher Marlowe• Theme: Love, Enjoy the moment without worrying

about the future.• A man of prestige and nobility who seeks love in the

fields of a hierarchy substantially lower than his own in which a plethora of items are offered to woo his beloved into a marital position.

• Speaker : A man attempting to gain his significant other’s approval for a future together through his lineage.

• Subject: A woman bearing the qualities of a poverty – stricken individual declining the mans initial offerings.

• Length: 6 Quadrants.

Stylistic Devices:• Tone: Enamored, Desperate.• Example: “ Come live with me and be my love”. The

speaker skips any formal conformities with a relationship and popped the big question without worry of the future. Effect: The speaker creates this tone to illustrate the desperation presented toward fulfilling the needs of a man seeking a betrothed.

• Hyperbole:• Example – “And I will make thee bed of roses And a

thousand fragrant posies”. Effect: Exaggerating the quantity of the speaker’s offering brings into question, to what ends would the speaker travel would travel in order to convince his beloved to accept his initial proposal?

“Fair lined slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold.”“If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me, and be my love.”

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