![]() ![]() ![]() Through nature Wroth conveys and reflects her disappointmemt and misery over love. ![]() She constantly describes love in a negative way, comparing it with the winter and the death. What figures of speech are predominant in the sonnet? Which words or phrases do you find particularly striking?ġ.Worth’s sonnet imagines the concept of love as a negative one. Did any surprise you or seem to jar with the tone? What do they convey?ĥ. Do you think the speaker is depressed or sad? Angry? Who or what makes the speaker feel this way?Ĥ. Sonnets often work with the speaker’s emotions of frustration, sadness, anger, or melancholy. How does Wroth’s sonnet imagine the concept of love? Is it like any other writers we’ve seen so far?ģ. No marvel that I grieve, who like want see.ġ. If trees and leaves for absence mourners be, With leafless, naked bodies, whose hues fadeįrom hopeful green, to wither in their love: Their fall, their branches, all their mournings prove, Thus of dead leaves her farewell carpet’s made: So much, alas, to sorrow are they pressed. Sweet summer’s parting, and of leaves distressed The very trees with hanging heads condole Whom absence’ power doth from mirth control: Light, leave thy light, fit for a lightsome soul ĭarkness doth truly suit with me oppressed, Come, darkest night, becoming sorrow best ![]()
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