Analysis of Love Sonnets by Lope de Vega
Love Sonnets – Lope de Vega
Go and Staying
Analysis
This love poem’s main theme is the absence of the loved one, separation. It uses imagery characterizing love, verbs, opposites, and even a reference to mythology.
From the first verse, opposite verbs are played (Go and stay, and be split), attempting to explain that in the absence of the beloved, a part of you goes, but your mind stays with her, and your heart breaks in two (without a soul and go from soulful others), as if your soul was with her and you stayed with it. Then, referring to the poem Ulysses, (hear the sweet voice of a siren, and can not free himself from the tree), the poem compares this love with Ulysses’, both suffering from distance love, where you still hear her voice but can’t get rid of the impediments to reunite.
Then, an image of a candle consuming (burn like candle as the candle burned and consumed) appears, in which love is the flame, which gives life and gives death, now illuminating, but consuming. The phrase (with towers on soft sand) gives another characteristic of a person in love and passionate, which is the idea of projecting dreams and fantasies, not knowing how unstable the ground is where the building has no support. Then, using the phrase (falling from heaven, and be evil in pain and regret ever be), it describes the lover as a sufferer but never regretful because this way, they still remember, falling from happiness to unhappiness but not repenting.
Then, the poem gives the image of a lover speaking alone (talk to silent solitude), imaginatively telling about their life and imagining conversations with her. It also argues that the lover thinks their love is eternally ordained (it remains on faith patience, time and what is called eternal).
So, the lover lives in an illusion, constantly thinking they’ll be back (believe suspicions and deny truths), and the poem ends with the phrase (which is what the world called absence, fire in the soul, and the living hell), where fire replaces love and hell represents the consequences of love.
Fainting, daring
Analysis
This poem is about the bipolarity of the feelings of someone in love through opposite verbs. Another resource used is the hidden meaning revealed at the end, which strikes the reader.
In the first stanza, a string of opposite adjectives shows love as an imbalance.
Then, starting the second verse (not found well outside the center and rest), it tries to explain that without her, replacing “her” with the target of the poem, they would not find happiness as a center and rest as a state of nirvana. What follows is another set of opposite adjectives.
Arriving at the third verse, it speaks of constantly deceiving oneself, convincing oneself that the relationship will be everlasting (face to clear away the disappointment), and then shows a comparison between love and poison (poison liquor soft drink), where it shows love as something exquisite, wonderful, and beautiful, but underneath, it’s something that slowly destroys.
Then, in the fourth stanza, it’s stated that it’s impossible to believe that there can be happiness in love, as it is a disappointment. This can be denoted as done between heaven and hell and happiness love (believe that a heaven in hell it is, give life and soul of a disappointment), and finally, it ends with a shot where the reader finally discovers the meaning of the poetic piece (this is love, who tried it knows).
San Martino del Corso
Of these houses
has not been
rather than some
piece of wall
In many
who was joined
has not been
even that
But at the heart
lack any cross
My heart
is the most devastated.
Analysis
This poem is about the loss of loved ones and uses external images of devastation to represent an internal state. To understand the poem, you must relate one image to another, which is a direct form of expression. The reader is led to relate these parallel structures to achieve the desired effect of the poet, who wants to enlarge their feelings.
First, you can see a picture of devastation in the city (of these houses has not been more than a piece of wall), which is associated with a feeling of loss of loved ones (many of whom had joined has not been not even that).
Then, the heart is compared to a cemetery, causing excitement, and the crosses represent all the people who were loved and are now dead, but they are still in the speaker’s mind (but no cross in heart failure).
Finally, the author finishes the poem by making an analogy between an external image of the destruction of a city and an internal picture of their heart.