Ever since the beginning of storytelling, playwrights, authors, artists and filmmakers have been able to express heartbreak in various ways. George Gascoigne's’ “For That He Looked Not Upon Her” emphasizes the narrator’s heartbreak through his complex attitude of being distressed throughout this Shakespearean sonnet by using diction and imagery. Although, heartbreak is such a universal topic, Gascoigne is able to capture the feeling of still loving a woman, but refusing to even look at her due not wanting to become hurt by her a second time. This poem would be considered a Shakespearean sonnet because it is made up of 14 lines which contain quatrains and a couplet. The quatrains illustrate the problem and and the couplet is the last two lines which solve the problem. The poem also follows an “ABAB” rhyme scheme which helps determine it to be a Shakespearean sonnet. The central theme of this poem is love and heartbreak. It is …show more content…
His word choice throughout the poem is very strong and helps make the poem stand out above others. He also uses alliteration all throughout the poem from beginning to end. In line 2 he uses “head louring so low” and in line 14 he uses “blazing eyes my bale have bred.” to help emphasize how the narrator feels. In lines 11 and 12 use it in a more interesting way because he uses alterations which contradict each other, “grievous” and “game” are used in line 11 and they have a more negative tone while “dazzled” and “desire” are used in line 12 have a more positive tone helping portray the narrator's contradicting feelings towards this woman. Gascoigne also uses two different metaphors, comparing the narrator's feeling to two different animals. One being a mouse who has been trapped in a mouse trap before and the other a fly that has once been buried by a flame. Both of these animals being trapped once and hurt have learned their lesson the same way as the