Most sonnets and popular songs are written about love or lost love. A good example of the latter is “Sonnet 61” by Michael Drayton and “The Scientist” by Coldplay. These two works of literature are similar in theme and tone. They are both about the pain of losing a love and the hurt and uneasiness that comes with getting over that person. In “Sonnet 61,” the author seems to be very much at ease with his relationship ending in the beginning of this poem. He is very nonchalant and does not seem very heartbroken like a reader would expect from most poetry about lost love. In the second line, he says, “You get no more of me,” which makes it seem that he has grown tired of this relationship and has no desire for his former lover. He even goes to
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The first verse of “The Scientist” shows that the author feels as if he has a successful plan to get his woman back. He describes how he is going to convince her that his love is genuine. In the second verse of “The Scientist,” the author is reminiscing about how he and his lover were closer in the past and were more comfortable being completely honest with each other. He has tried to go back to those times, but things have changed, and there is not the same sense of comfort in their relationship that there once was. Later in the verse, the author uses heads and tails to symbolize the flipping of a coin. This flipping of a coin is a risk, which is much like the risk of falling in love. Normally, landing on heads represents winning the coin flip and landing on tails symbolizes losing the coin flip. He uses the lyric “coming up tails” to show that he lost his love. In the chorus, the author repeats, “Nobody said it was easy.” This may be him telling himself that he should have given this relationship a higher priority. On the other hand, he could be telling his lover that she should not give up so soon because she should have known that this was not going to be easy. The author says, “Take me back to the start,” because he wants his lover to give him a walk-through of where he started failing in their relationship, so he can understand how to make it up to
The first verse of “The Scientist” shows that the author feels as if he has a successful plan to get his woman back. He describes how he is going to convince her that his love is genuine. In the second verse of “The Scientist,” the author is reminiscing about how he and his lover were closer in the past and were more comfortable being completely honest with each other. He has tried to go back to those times, but things have changed, and there is not the same sense of comfort in their relationship that there once was. Later in the verse, the author uses heads and tails to symbolize the flipping of a coin. This flipping of a coin is a risk, which is much like the risk of falling in love. Normally, landing on heads represents winning the coin flip and landing on tails symbolizes losing the coin flip. He uses the lyric “coming up tails” to show that he lost his love. In the chorus, the author repeats, “Nobody said it was easy.” This may be him telling himself that he should have given this relationship a higher priority. On the other hand, he could be telling his lover that she should not give up so soon because she should have known that this was not going to be easy. The author says, “Take me back to the start,” because he wants his lover to give him a walk-through of where he started failing in their relationship, so he can understand how to make it up to