Canvas by HARRISON BRENT GABEL

hgabel — 2025-02-06 19:07:14 UTC

Primary Entry 1: Love, That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought Book B Page 136 For my first entry I wanted to look at Love, That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought. (Line 9)And coward Love then to the heart apace Taketh his flight, where he doth lurk and plain His purpose lost, and dare not show his face. For my lord's guilt thus faultless bide I pain; Yet from my lord shall not my foot remove: Sweet is the death that taketh end by love. It seems like this one has a meter that is similar to Shakespeare’s, with there is ten syllables in total and it appears to be using iambic pentamer, or five sets of feet called iambs on each line. This gives it a sort of natural feel and has been compared to a heartbeat in the way that it carries it’s rhythm.The language itself is somewhat straight forward, talking about the pain he feels for love and sort of turning love as a concept into a person. I think that it sort of covers an overly romantic notion of love which was really popular at the time, while other’s were sort of being to take on more complicated notions of love.

Associative Entry 1: Love Minus Zero Limit

hgabel — 2025-02-06 19:07:49 UTC

Associative Entry (Bob Dylan-Love Minus Zero Limit):

I decided for my supplementary entry to talk about a song that I think follows the theme of the love sonnet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w1mCevu3sU

I like it because he frames it almost like a puzzle. This was written around the time that Dylan was dating Joan Baez and was going through a transitional period in his music, and so whether he is criticizing the subject or praising her can vary line by line. This can be seen in the very opening lines. In a way it is like a modernist version of the sonnets and almost subversive of the sonnets in the way that Shakespeare is.

“My love she speaks like silence,
Without ideals or violence,
She doesn't have to say she's faithful,
Yet she's true, like ice, like fire.
People carry roses,
Make promises by the hours,
My love she laughs like the flowers,
Valentines can't buy her.”

Entry 2: William Shakespeare Sonnet 35

hgabel — 2025-02-06 19:19:02 UTC

For my second entry, I covered William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 35. Like “Love that Reign and Doth Live Within My Thought”, the Sonnet is set in Iambic pentameter, and with it’s indentation it has a very musical quality to it that is meant to be read aloud. It has three quatrains and a couplet at the end. During the first quatrain, there is a sort of setting up of the argument that slowly gets undermined throughout the third and fourth quatrain. However, at the end there is a turn that that subverts the preceding “That I an accessory needs must be
To that sweet thief which sourly robs from me”. This is a common technique that poets use when they are trying to keep their utterances interesting.