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Men In Love :<3: - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The Scrutiny :check:
        
        Cavalier poetry - Carpe Diem - Tom has the same mentality of celebrating pleasure
        
        male narrator ends a short term relationship so that he can go off and meet more new women.
        
        "Why should you swear I am forsworn, Since thine I vowed to be?"
        
        "Vowed" - religious language, juxtaposes the meaning of the poem 'going off with others'.
        
        Linking to the contextual purpose of the poem as it was written by a court poet = joke for men in court
        
        questions throughout - can sense the female presence but is never heard
        
        "like skillful mineralists that sound for treasure in un-plowed ground."
        
        "un-plowed ground" - emphasises the importance of virginal women, Virginity is a the treasure of women
        
        Lovelace is portraying the idea of continuously seeking for gratification through the use of women as conquests.
        
        Tom and Myrtle's affair is a product of economic exploitation and lust which gives him sexual gratification
        
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        "skilful mineralists" - relish in sibilance - implies that the male narrator is going to search for all the women in the world trying to find the most beautiful gem
        
        "With spoils of meaner Beauties crowned"
        
        "spoils","crowned" - battle imagery suggesting that the speaker = victor and women = conquests.
        
        promiscuity of men is an acceptable form of male leisure
        
        Unlike women, when they loose their 'prize' they become tainted and condemned by society
        
        "Ev'n sated with variety."
        
        "sated" suggests gluttony of men - over indulge with women
        
        The narrator suggests that women will wait for the male to return after his grand tour of Europe, searching for women. - therefore objectifying them
        
        "treasure in un-plowed-up ground"
        
        'un-plowed' - virgins/women that have not yet been found by the 'miniralists' (men)
        
        The woman in Scrutiny gave up her purity to be with this man. Myrtle gets hit by the car thinking it was Tom - gives up her life
        
        female devotion to men not reciprocated
      - To His Coy Mistress :red_cross:
        
        Uses the inevitability of death as a persuasive technique to get the women into bed.
      - The Flea :red_cross:
        
        Too short to write enough detail
        
        All about male desire
  - - - Tom is more dominant but Daisy is not afraid to bring up his hurtful actions that show his control over her - "You did it Tom...That's what I get for marrying a brute of a man, a great big hulking physical specimen"
        
        'hulking' connotes physical dominance.
- - - - "Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay."
        Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendor.
        
        "not been merely the stars" - 'merely' - implies that the stars are simple for Gatsby to aim for... Nick is in awe of this man who has such a capacity for wonder and shoots for not just the cosmos, but much further.
        
        "just across the bay" - gave Gatsby hope that maybe one day Daisy was going to be near him again being able to live the romance that was once real be real again.
        
        "womb of his purposeless splendor" - juxtaposition - implies that Gatsby may have hope but he cannot reach the splendor as that is the representation of the 'old' money upperclass.
        
        proves that the ideas of rebirth and remaking oneself is an important ideal of the American dream
        
        The coming alive idea is crucial to American society in the 1920’s, as people began to reinvent themselves.
    - - Trying to define what love is - by looking at what it isn't first.
      - Romanticist - idealist
      - "an ever fixed mark" - "mark" permanency in love
        
        Gatsby stays devoted to Daisy regardless of the time they spend apart and their different social status's
        
        However, the green light that seems to be the 'ever-fixed mark' of Gatsby's passion is ultimately no more than a marker of Tom's property. After Gatsby's death it continues to shine as before, indifferent to the intensity of his dreams.
        
        LOVE IS CONSTANT
      - "It is the star to every wandering bark"
        
        The green light is Gatsby's 'north star' and leads him towards the American dream and attaining Daisy
        
        The green light that is situated at the end of Daisy's dock represents Gatsby's hopes and dreams for the future. Just as a 'star' guides boats through the sea, the green light is a guiding light to lead him to his goal of the American Dream and the attainment of Daisy.
        
        METAPHOR - 'love is the guiding north star for lost ships'
        
        Love should be the guiding force in one's life
      - A04 - It is written in a renaissance period. Shakespeare adheres to courtly, timeless love typical theme of this period.