The sonnet I chose is "Sonnet 30". It it written by Edmund Spenser who is known as one of the greatest writers of all time. The speaker in this sonnet has a hot passion for his love. The problem is that everything he does, turns her more cold. His hot desire for her does not melt her cold heart like fire should. He can not get through to her, and it confuses him. He thinks that fire would melt ice, or at least her cold heart would put out his fire, but it does neither. He states: "Such is the pow'r of love in gentle mind that it can alter all the course of kind." Here he is saying that love can make you do crazy things, and crazier things can happen. 
I honestly do not believe in Edmund Spenser's message. Here he is saying that love makes you do crazy things, which I believe, but I do not believe it is the reason she keeps rejecting him. I honestly think it is somewhat creepy that he keeps trying to pursue in his "hot desire" for her even though she keeps rejecting him. You would think after the first few times a guy would get a hint, but here he is just oblivious to the fact that this girl does not have any interest in him. I have been in this position before, and if a girl does not like you , she will turn away from you completely and turn cold. A girl may play hard to get, but will not persistently shoot a guy down. I would just get weirded out and start to hate the guy if he would not start backing off.
This video is a song written by Elton John. It is call "When a Woman Doesn't Want You." :)
I like your pictures!! I'm not exactly sure what I am commenting about.. but I deffinately agree with you. The guy, obviously blinded by his love, thinks she is almost playing hard to get but he is not realizing she really is not in to him. The more he keeps pushing and trying to get her to love him, (in other words, melt her ice) the colder she gets and turns away. Basically, he is creepy and does not know how to take no as an answer.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Bri...your pictures are really cool! I would have to disagree with the message to this sonnet too. It's just creepy that he keeps coming on to her and isn't getting the hint that she wants nothing to do with him and that she's not playing hard get. What a creeper....
ReplyDeleteJessi I agree with your theory, but when a man loves a woman, he is determined to find love. Whether she may like it or not, the man is doing what he believes is the best way to capture her love. If it means to go too desperate measures, well so be it, but men do whatever is necessary to find that one true love.
ReplyDeleteI understand where you are coming from with your thoughts on the poem and agree with most of them.
ReplyDeleteThis kind of ties in with what Antonio said, but rejection only makes a guy want a girl more. A majority of the time a girl will reject a guy to see if he is serious.