figurative language in the phoenix and the turtle

Phoenix is created by the vow of troth and will 'live' as long as the fires of love sustain it. 2 (Spring 1961): 91-101. With heavenly substance, she herself consumes. The Phoenix and the Turtle have left, alas, no posterity. . The ninth stanza turns from logical contradictions to the nature of the relationship. In the metaphysical vein the phrase would permit of translation in terms of such love as that celebrated by Donne in his "Valediction," love so completely and purely a union of minds and souls that it rests not in physical union, which is the essence of "sublunary love." [In the following essay, Matchett analyzes The Phoenix and Turtle with an emphasis on structure, versification, symbolism, and the "texture of complexities and ambiguities in the poem. But only a little. We are not to say, on the other hand, that the Phoenix embodied Love and the Turtle Constancy (or vice versa); the stanza stresses their mutuality, their death in a mutual flame, and the singular verb "is" emphasizes the fact that not two things, but one has died. . In 1601 England's future seemed to depend on the miracle of the Phoenix. The Phoenix and the Turtle Ed. Note that the swan's role is also functional in terms of its legendary powers. So too, in the Chartrain poets, Natura's quest for a pattern of perfection in heaven succeeds in bringing fertility to the earth. 8 King Arthur and, among the nine women worthies, Matilda, the mother of Henry II. Elizabeth claimed that love of her subjects and marriage to her realm justified her virginity, and that she would somehow provide a successor. Just as the Phoenix, sitting on the topmost bough, turns towards the sun, so would his elevated thoughts turn to Laura and his passion take fire, burn to ashes and yet spring up anew (no. Cf. Physical intercourse is excluded in Shakespeare's lyric only by the assertion that "twas not infirmity' that prevented the lovers from leaving 'posterity'. 59-60. Israel Gollancz, EETS London, 1895, p.208). A simile is a comparison between two unlike things using the words "like," "as" or "than." While keeping biographical aspects in mind, they see The Phoenix and the Turtle essentially as a phase in Shakespeare's imaginative development.10 Along roughly similar lines is G. Wilson Knight, who, in an argument apparently favouring Platonic bisexuality, asserts that 'the Turtle signifies the female aspect of the male poet's soul'.11, All the above readings, based wholly or in part on eminent contemporaries, pay in the view of some scholars insufficient regard to the role of Loves Martyr's dedicatee, Sir John Salusbury (or Salisbury).

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