1 / 8

You Charm’d Me N ot W ith T hat F air F ace

You Charm’d Me N ot W ith T hat F air F ace. By: John Dryden Poem Analysis By: Dia Ward. You charm'd me not with that fair face Though it was all divine: To be another's is the grace, That makes me wish you mine. The Gods and Fortune take their part

badru
Download Presentation

You Charm’d Me N ot W ith T hat F air F ace

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. You Charm’d Me Not With That Fair Face By: John Dryden Poem Analysis By: Dia Ward

  2. You charm'd me not with that fair face Though it was all divine: To be another's is the grace, That makes me wish you mine. The Gods and Fortune take their part Who like young monarchs fight; And boldly dare invade that heart Which is another's right. First mad with hope we undertake To pull up every bar; But once possess'd, we faintly make A dull defensive war. Now every friend is turn'd a foe In hope to get our store: And passion makes us cowards grow, Which made us brave before. A B A B C D C D E F E F G H G H My Poem and It’s Structure

  3. Imagery- The use of vivid language, so you could imagine something. “But once possess’d we faintly make a dull defensive war” • Alliteration- the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning or closely connected words. “dull defensive war” • Allusion- An implied or indirect reference to history “God and Fortune” • Rhyme-correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words “You charm'd me not with that fair face. Though it was all divine: To be another's is the grace, That makes me wish you mine”. Poetic Elements

  4. First Stanza: The speaker fell in love with a woman who wasn’t single. • Second Stanza: His “luck” is making him fall in love eve though he has no chance with her. • Third Stanza: He was overwhelmed with hope and the visions of his fantasies. But we they got together it wasn’t as he dreamed. • Forth Stanza: He doesn’t have friends anymore because he thinks they’re going to steal her heart, he was brave to be in love before but now he’s afraid. Literal Meaning

  5. Dryden’s purpose was to express his feelings about the things he loved and wanted but they didn’t turn out as he planned. • He was most likely upset about this experience and expresses his feelings through literture • The speakers pourpose is almost to give advice to someone. Author's Pourpose

  6. The woman is anything in life that somebody wants badly. • Message: You might hope and pray for this thing but once you have it, it’s not as great as you planned. Figurative Meaning

  7. Year of birth and death: 1631–1700 • John grew up in a semi wealthy family, who believed education • Over the years he grew very fond of poems • He wrote poems about famous people which got him noticed around the community. • In 1662 John wrote "To My Lord Chancellor“, which got him elected to royal society. • When theaters were open he wrote many plays that he is very famous for. • John died April 30, 1700 but his poems still lives on today. Bio: John Dryden

  8. www.poetryoutloud.org/ www.luminarium.org/eightlit/dryden/ www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/172371/ Sites

More Related