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'Against Love' -Katherine Philips (Literary Devices (Simile,…
'Against Love'
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Katherine Philips
Literary Devices
Simile
"Lovers like men in fevers burn and rave," Here, Philips says that lovers are like sick people. When one is sick, you tend to not be yourself. And that is exactly what love does to you. For love, you do some crazy things that you normally would not do.
Personification
Line 6- She personifies love and gives it human qualities. She gives love the ability to be severe.
Metaphor
Line 8- “And make the shackles which they wear.” Love keeps men in chains and holds them down. They are prisoners of love. They will never be free from it unless they control love than letting love control them.
Paradox
Line 2- “Your real griefs, and painted joys,” Love can only bring you grief and since it’s real, the pain is going to last longer than the love. Joy and happiness is like painting a picture. It looks nice and colourful, but it can wash right off and doesn’t last very long.
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Analysis
Philips describes people in love as Cupid’s objects. Even though they may love one another, their love is artificial. Line 7+8- “give him power by their fear,/ And make the shackles which they wear”
The poem addresses Cupid (the Roman god of love) seen in the line "Hence Cupid!"
(WordPress, 2018)
Written and published between the 1650's and 1660's in the Renaissance period
The message in the poem is to not get caught up in love, because it is fickle. If you don’t get swept up in the idea and fantasy of it, but the realities of it. Good things will come to people who keep their heart.
Poet
Katherine Philips
(1 January 1632—22 June 1664)
(Encyclopædia Britannica, 2019).
Royalist Poet
Poet in the renaissance era
(Encyclopædia Britannica, 2019).
Analysis
Love
The negative effects of love are reflected, as love is not all what people think it is
Themes
Tone & Speaker
The speaker is Katherine herself, and the tone is bitter to emphasise her distaste in men
(Au, 2006)