Triple L Journal

Berowne’s speech, he proves that the men aren’t forsworn by loving the French ladies because all knowledge boils down to love. “For where is author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman’s eye?”  It is pointless and impossible to know what is unknown because women and love are at the sources of knowledge. “Learning is but an adjunct to ourself, an where we are our learning likewise is…” He says that love is part of who we are, so if we are trying to learn more about ourselves taking love out of the equation it will only cause harm.   We will be so overcome without love we will waste the time and not learn anything.  The progression of his argument first what they had sworn to do, how some of the tasks are accomplishable but then how love is so vitally important to their well-being that it can’t be done! Love is everywhere love is all around us love is everything!! Think about the books we are about to pour over, they all have some relationship to love!( The jist of what Berowne is saying)  If we give up love then our brains will go old and senile. This is important because giving up love is like giving up air, a necessity to live, we may not think about it all the time but there are so many chemical reactions require in the brain to make us function correctly and love is one of them.  Think about how depressed people feel, it is more than a mental depression it is physical aches and pains that never leave. “And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.  It adds a precious seeing to the eye; A lover’s eyes will gaze an eagle blind; A lover’s ear will hear the lowest sound…”  Even is Shakespearean Time he knew that love is vital more then emotional but physically and mental. One rhetorical device is anaphora, where it repeats the same beginning of a sentence, like many of the sentences begin with love, but not just love but love having some sort of physical attributes. Which is also personification.  “Love’s tongue proves dainty Bacchus ross in taste. For valour, is not Love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides? Subtle as Sphinx; as sweet and musical As right Apollo’s lute, strung with his hair; And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods…” He references some of the Greek literature and myths, these are accepted as books of higher learning and they all talk about love. He uses these to back up his arguments, which gives weight to them making the other men see the intelligent in his thinking.

Words

Solace: comfort or consolation in a time of distress or sadness

Cockle: an edible, burrowing bivalve mollusk with a strong ribbed shell.

Audacious: showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks, showing an impudent lack or respect

Quondam: that once was; former

Conjunction adverb which is like a “then what happen next” word. Ex. Accordingly, afterwards.

An absolute phrase gives a complete description of something I guess?

4 days til the play!