10: sample passage analysis
the passage:
my notes:
my paragraph:
When you went onward on this ended action,
I look'd upon her with a soldier's eye,
That liked, but had a rougher task in hand
Than to drive liking to the name of love:
But now I am return'd and that war-thoughts
Have left their places vacant, in their rooms
Come thronging soft and delicate desires,
All prompting me how fair young Hero is,
Saying, I liked her ere I went to wars.
my notes:
- Char of Claudio: Romantic but some conflict w/ masculinity of Romance (‘soldier’s eye’)
- close relationship, motre trusting emotionally than w/ Ben
- setting up the central romance of the play
- theme: definition of love: comptetes with other types of affection (soldier’s brotherhood, etc.) Brought up by Ben
- creates a metaphor of emotions: war thoughts out, love in
- ‘rougher task in hand’ connotation implying manliness
my paragraph:
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