P6 Thesis and Evidence/Commentary Workshop by Paige Snyder https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af PROMPT: In George Gascoigne’s poem “For That He Looked Not upon Her,” published in 1573, the speaker explains why he holds his head low. Read the poem carefully. Then, in a well-written paragraph, analyze how Gascoigne uses literary elements and techniques to convey the complex attitude of the speaker. en-us 2021-09-23 16:31:18 UTC 2025-06-07 23:44:52 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f58a.png "For That He Looked Not upon Her" by George Gascoigne psnyder10 https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1763528968 You must not wonder, though you think it strange,
To see me hold my louring1 head so low;
And that mine eyes take no delight to range
About the gleams which on your face do grow.
The mouse which once hath broken out of trap
Is seldom 'ticèd² with the trustless bait,
But lies aloof for fear of more mishap,
And feedeth still in doubt of deep deceit.
The scorchèd fly which once hath 'scaped the flame
Will hardly come to play again with fire,
Whereby I learn that grievous is the game
Which follows fancy dazzled by desire:
    So that I wink or else hold down my head,
    Because your blazing eyes my bale3 have bred. 

(Published: 1573)

1gloomy      2enticed      3misery

]]> 2021-09-23 16:31:18 UTC https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1763528968 THESIS psnyder10 https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1763668076 2021-09-23 17:28:38 UTC https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1763668076 psnyder10 https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1763669105 evidence blah blah blah
commentary yada yadda]]> 2021-09-23 17:29:01 UTC https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1763669105 Thesis https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1763689972 George Gascoigne uses metaphors and imagery to show the speaker's unwillingness to look at her because she caused him pain.]]> 2021-09-23 17:38:09 UTC https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1763689972 Thesis https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1763692132 Gascoigne uses metaphors in order to show the undecisive attitude of the speaker of the wanting to look at the girl and not.]]> 2021-09-23 17:39:07 UTC https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1763692132 https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1763694844 commentary yada yadda
evidence blah blah blah]]> 2021-09-23 17:40:16 UTC https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1763694844 Thesis https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1763695676 Gasciogne uses metaphors to show the unwillingness of the speaker to look at the girl]]> 2021-09-23 17:40:37 UTC https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1763695676 Thesis https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1763696481 Gascoigne uses metaphors to show the unwillingness of the speaker because she caused her pain.]]> 2021-09-23 17:40:59 UTC https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1763696481 Thesis :) https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1763697825 Gascoigne uses comparison through metaphor to describe the speaker's suffering toward love.]]> 2021-09-23 17:41:34 UTC https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1763697825 Thesis https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1763698342 Gascoigne uses metaphors to show the speaker's refusal to look at an extraordinarily beautiful woman because she has caused him pain before.]]> 2021-09-23 17:41:48 UTC https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1763698342 Evidence/commentary https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1763725189 Through the quote of the mouse being out of the trap, we see that he is now free from the pain, this is his comparision of the relief he feels. He then goes back to stating he still feels the enticing feel to rest his gaze on her, but he knows better then to do so for it will cause great despair.]]> 2021-09-23 17:52:49 UTC https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1763725189 Thesis https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1763729799 Groscoigne uses different literary devices, such as metaphors, to show the speaker's avoidance of falling into the temptation of looking at the women that has caused him suffering. 

]]> 2021-09-23 17:54:47 UTC https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1763729799 Thesis https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1765849243 Gascoigne uses metaphors to show how the speaker doesn't want to look at the beautiful woman because of the pain it causes him. ]]> 2021-09-24 14:36:58 UTC https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1765849243 Evidence https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1765852345 Gascoigne says, "The scorched fly which once hath 'scaped the flame will hardly come to play again with the fire." This metaphor demonstrates how the speaker once was willing to look upon her, but is now unwilling to do so because of the pain it causes him, similar to how the scorched fly once was upon the flame but no longer does so.]]> 2021-09-24 14:38:12 UTC https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1765852345 Evidence/Commentary https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1766154299 Gascoigne mentions the burned fly that escaped fire will not likely get close to fire again, then states "Whereby I learn that grievous is the game which follows fancy dazzled by desire." Here Gascoigne is saying that he learned how harsh something was that looks appealing, the woman he is talking about, just as a fly is attracted to the light of a fire but also hurt by it. He is the fly that got burned and no longer wants to play with the chance of getting burned again, and he uses the metaphor of the burned fly to explain why he will not look at her.]]> 2021-09-24 16:43:15 UTC https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1766154299 Evidence https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1766340000 Gascoigne says, "The scorched fly which once hath 'scaped the flame will hardly come to play again with the fire." This metaphor shows how the speaker was once willing to look at her, but is now unwilling to do so because of the pain it causes him, similar to how the scorched fly once was upon the flame but no longer does so.]]> 2021-09-24 18:14:01 UTC https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1766340000 Thesis https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1766341914 Gascoigne makes use of metaphors and imagery to describe and show the speaker's unwillingness to look at a woman because she caused him pain.]]> 2021-09-24 18:15:07 UTC https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1766341914 Thesis https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1766346427 The imagery and literary devices in the poem help show that he does not want to look at the beautiful women because if he did it would hurt him.]]> 2021-09-24 18:17:32 UTC https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1766346427 Thesis https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1766348042 Gascoigne uses literary devices such as metaphors to show that the speaker resists to look at the women who caused him pain. ]]> 2021-09-24 18:18:23 UTC https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1766348042 Thesis https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1766349264 George Gascoigne uses metaphors to show the speaker's hesitance and aversion to being near, and looking at her because of the pain she caused him.]]> 2021-09-24 18:19:05 UTC https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1766349264 Evidence https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1766350118 Gascoigne metaphorically compares his desire to look at a woman to a mouse. For example, he states that "The mouse which once hath broken out of trap Is seldom 'ticèd² with the trustless bait". Similarily to the mouse that was caught in a trap the speaker was trapped to this woman. However, like the mouse, the speaker is no longer desiring of the "bait" because he is aware of the trap that awaits him. ]]> 2021-09-24 18:19:33 UTC https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1766350118 Evidence/Commentary https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1766355568 Through the poem we are given insight into the speaker's thoughts. In the line, “The scorched fly which one hath ‘escaped the flame will hardly come to play again with fire.”, the speaker is using a metaphor to emphasize how he relates to the fly. Similar to the fly, the speaker has been lured in only to be hurt. He has now learned his lesson, and tries to resist giving into temptation. 

]]> 2021-09-24 18:22:42 UTC https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1766355568 Evidence/Commentary https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1766358225 Through the poem we are given insight into the speaker's thoughts. In the line, “The scorched fly which one hath ‘escaped the flame will hardly come to play again with fire.”, the speaker is using a metaphor to emphasize how he relates to the fly. Similar to the fly, the speaker has been lured in only to be hurt. He has now learned his lesson, and tries to resist giving into temptation. 

]]> 2021-09-24 18:24:14 UTC https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1766358225 Evidence https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1766363559 Gascoigne states ¨Whereby I learn that grievous is the game which follows fancy dazzled by desire¨ He is referring to the women that he can't look at in fear of getting hurt. He was hurt by love.

]]> 2021-09-24 18:27:16 UTC https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1766363559 Evidence and Commentary https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1766363632
The author writes. "... Is seldom 'ticed with the trustless bait, but lies aloof for fear of more mishap," in his metaphor of a mouse that has escaped its trap. This metaphor shows that the woman has caused the speaker trust issues and has hurt him. Gascoigne uses this metaphor to compare the speaker's feelings of confusion and doubt toward the woman to those of a mouse that has been trapped by bait and feels doubtful as to whether or not food can now be trusted.

]]> 2021-09-24 18:27:18 UTC https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1766363632 Evidence https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1766364528 Gascoigne uses the imagery of "The mouse which once hath broken out of trap
Is seldom 'ticèd² with the trustless bait,
But lies aloof for fear of more mishap,
And feedeth still in doubt of deep deceit." This is compared to the speaker and how he has been hurt by the woman before how it is like his aversion to look at her.]]> 2021-09-24 18:27:51 UTC https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1766364528 Evidence/ Commentary https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1766365051 Gasocoinge says that he holds his head low because his eyes do not take pleasure in seeing her. he does this to make sure the reader knows that the sight of her pains him.]]> 2021-09-24 18:28:10 UTC https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1766365051 Evidence https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1766366777 Gascoigne compares himself to various animals to show his unwillingness to look at the women before him again. He states, "The scorched fly which once hath 'scaped the flame will hardly come to play again with fire." He says this to compare himself with a fly. He already involved himself with the woman before, last time he got burned, and he won't mess with her again. He keeps his head down in order to avoid confrontation. Flies are attracted to light, and have been burned by fire as a result. This fact is what causes him to compare his situation with the fly.]]> 2021-09-24 18:29:14 UTC https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1766366777 Evidence https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1766367579 Gascoigne writes “ The scorched fly which once hath ‘scaped the flame will hardly come to play with fire” He uses this metaphor to relate to the fly. He could once look at the girl but now he can not as it causes him pain. 

]]> 2021-09-24 18:29:39 UTC https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1766367579 Evidence https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1766370276 Gascoigne writes “ The scorched fly which once hath ‘scaped the flame will hardly come to play with fire” He uses this metaphor to relate to the fly. He could once look at the girl but now he can not as it causes him pain. 

]]> 2021-09-24 18:31:14 UTC https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1766370276 https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1766393744 2021-09-24 18:44:43 UTC https://padlet.com/psnyder10/j81v4xdn7sze93af/wish/1766393744