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THE END

Presented by Halle Ferree

To Lucasta, Going to the Wars

Notes

Lovelace seems to be enthusiastic about living an honourable life, perhaps this is why he does not want to be called unkind.

Line 1: Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind,...

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Lovelace is not "breaking it off" with Lucasta. He is saying that he needs to put her on hold during

the war, but he still loves her.

Metaphor

A metaphor is the comparison between two things without the use of like or as. The poet states that one thing is another. It is usually a comparison between something concrete and something abstract.

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Alliteration

Line 5-6: comparison of the enemy to a mistress.

Line 11-12: implied comparison of Honour to a beloved woman (Honour is capitalized,

like Dear, making it a rival for the

speakers affections).

Alliteration is the repetition of a beginning consonant. We see alliteration is a few of the lines from the poem:

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Line 5: ...a new mistress now I chase

Line 6: ...The first foe in the field

To Lucasta, Going to the Wars

was written by Richard Lovelace (1618-1657). When Lovelace wrote this,

he was fighting on behalf of the king in a War. The poem is actually a letter to his beloved, Lucasta, as he was on

his way to the battlefield.

Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind,

That from the nunnery

Of thy chaste breast, and quiet mind

To war and arms I fly.

True, a new mistress I now chase,

The first foe in the field;

And with a stronger faith embrace

A sword, a horse, a shield.

Yet this inconstancy is such,

As you too shall adore;

I could not love thee, Dear, so much,

Loved I not Honour more.

Richard Lovelace

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