In his poem, “For That He Looked Not upon Her”, George Gascoigne shows the reader of the speakers complex attitude of being attracted but doubtful towards his ex lover. Gascoigne uses many poetic devices, such as metaphors and first person point of view to show this complex attitude of the speaker. George Gascoigne uses different poetic devices to show the speaker’s tempted yet repulsive attitude towards his lover, such as metaphors, in “For That He Looked Not Upon Her.” An example of one of the many metaphors used is “The mouse which once hath broken out of a trap is seldom ‘ticéd with the trustless bait.” This metaphor shows the difference between a mouse hardly going back to trap that once caught him and the speaker rarely going back
