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by: Lizbeth Edwards, Katia Wen, Mariana Montiel, Ivanna Muñoz,, Amarelis Wang and Kelly Chen
The main theme here is the darker side of love and the overwhelming impact it can have on its victims, but this is also an acknowledgement of the absolute power and wonder of love as it can evoke this reaction when it is withdrawn.Wroth explores the natural world in autumn/winter.
Wroth associates herself (or Pamphilia) with darkness, trees full of browning leaves that then fall to the fall. This ties autumn/winter as the approach of death. The poem is a Shakespearean sonnet with 14 lines and 3 quatrains. The rhyme is ABAB and a couplet of CC. Wroth uses a masculine rhyme to make the rhythm of the poem quick and to add a bit of frustration.
Come, darkest night, becoming sorrow best;
Light, leave thy light, fit for a lightsome soul;
Darkness doth truly suit with me oppressed,
Whom absence’ power doth from mirth control:
The very trees with hanging heads condole
Sweet summer’s parting, and of leaves distressed
In dying colours make a grief-ful roll,
So much, alas, to sorrow are they pressed.
Thus of dead leaves her farewell carpet’s made:
Their fall, their branches, all their mournings prove,
With leafless, naked bodies, whose hues fade
From hopeful green, to wither in their love:
If trees and leaves for absence mourners be,
No marvel that I grieve, who like want see.
Lady Mary Wroth (1583-c.1653)
Sonnet 19
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It’s called Sonnet 19 as it is part of a sequence of sonnets from Countess of Montgomery’s Urania called Pamphilia to Amphilanthus.
This poem is an expression of Pamphilia’s emotions towards Amphilanthus who has been unfaithful, but there are clear links – in the vividity of her expression of anguish – to Wroth’s own love life and her relationship with the one true love of her life, her cousin, Earl William Herbert.
Lady Mary Wroth
- Lady Mary Wroth was born into a family of literary luminaries in the Elizabethan Era in England
- Known as first English woman writer to publish prose fiction