A Farewell to False Love

Trevor Robinson Kanshaw 1st 3/25/13 A Farewell to False Love essay If only one could tell true extol from preposterous love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools In the rime A Farewell to False love, Sir Walter capital of North Carolina uses loaded language to prove that fabricated love is hard to recover until youve already gone by dint of the relationship. Raleigh uses such(prenominal) quotes as A mortal foe and enemy to informality, and A gilded hook that holds a poisoned bait to make us as the reader to feel that false love is bad.Raleigh also uses this poem to make us be more cautious or cod false love from true love. Raleigh uses the quote, A siren song, febricity of the brain as a classic form of allusion in course credit to The Odyssey, a classic Greek story. In The Odyssey, the sirens used their songs to lure in sailors only to kill them. Raleigh uses a sirens song to relate to a trap or some type of trick. When he uses fever of the mind he mean that people are to infatuated with them to even notice false love.The poem also includes the quote A substance care the shadow of the solarize which contains redundancy, whereas the sun has no shadow. A quote such as this one is confusing, yet deep in the sense that the sun cannot have a shadow Compared to Raleighs feeling that he cannot find true love. The line being redundant also has its meaning. It means that false love is unneeded and should cancel itself out. Raleigh repeats the theme that false love is a lie, a deceiver, and untrue over and over through ought the poem. All the lines mean the same thing in different ways.