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Beauty Is But A Painted Hell
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Who is Thomas Campion?
- Campion was a physician, poet, and composer, in fact most of his poems doubled as songs.
-A lot of his works are about love.
- He sank into oblivion in the years after his death, and still isn't as well known as other poets from his time.
Title
Beauty Is But A Painted Hell
Paraphrase
Beauty is not as great as it seems,
Oh my, Oh my,
Beauty hurts those who admire it,
Beauty kills those who want it,
To give her pride is to fuel her,
There is no fire crueler.
Your heart is empty of pity,
Oh my, Oh my,
Since it's so easy to fake how you feel,
With fake tears and fake sadness,
Your promises are lies,
Your love is cruel, and your beauty ruthless.
Sadness can laugh, and anger can sing,
Oh my, Oh my,
My wild grief has shown me,
I was too faithful to you,
The first step to craziness,
Is the excess of sadness.
Connotation
This poem was written a very long time ago, here are a few translations.
"My rauing griefes discouer
I liu'd too true a louer"
This poem is actually one of the many songs written by Thomas Campion.
Attitude
Campion's attitude towards beauty in this poem is anger and resentment. He thinks that it only lures you in to be hurt. If someone is beautiful, you're probably going to fall for them regardless of their personality.
Shifts
There is a shift between every stanza.
In the first stanza Campion personifies beauty...
Beauty is but a painted hell :
Aye me, aye me,
Shee wounds them that admire it,
Shee kils them that desire it.
Giue her pride but fuell,
No fire is more cruell.
In the second stanza he talks about the lady who hurt him.
Pittie from eu'ry heart is fled :
Aye me, aye me,
Since false desire could borrow
Teares of dissembled sorrow,
Constant vowes turn truthlesse,
Loue cruele, Beauty ruthlesse.
The third stanza is about himself, and how he feels about it all.
Sorrow can laugh, and Fury sing :
Aye me, aye me,
My rauing griefes discouer
I liu'd too true a louer :
The first step to madnesse
Is the excesse of sadnesse.
In the poem Campion simply shifts subjects while keeping the same attitude.
Title... again
Upon revisiting our title, we decided that our first analysis was right.
We thought the title meant that beauty isn't good, it's hell but it's alluring. It's 'painted' so that it's evil is disguised.
Theme
We found that a few times within the poem when a 'U' was used, it was meant to be a 'V' like in...
Beauty is but a painted hell
*Metaphor
Shee wounds them that admire it,
Shee kills them that desire it
*Personification
-Where ever there is a word like 'discouer' or
'rauing' the 'U' is actually a 'V'.
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Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
Thanks for listening!
Love, Rashadea and Eva.
The theme of this poem is:
Don't fall in love solely on
beauty, because it'll cause
you to be hurt.