Desire is the strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen, the poem "Thou Blind Man 's Mark" by Sir Philip Sidney shows that desire makes you figuratively blind, to surroundings and even to others emotions and words. The poem was written in the 1500 's which will without a doubt change the true meaning of the poem, for instance a huge part of daily life was church, and that could have a huge impact on the meaning, however, there is no clues as to church or hints to the time period. The emotions of the speaker are shown throughout with many literary devices and complex wordings. The speaker in "Thou Blind Man 's Mark" shows his two-sided attitude towards desire and his mind, the poet achieves this using metaphors
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The literary device shows complexity because of the comparison and the uncommon items being compared, another main point of metaphors within the poem is to give emphasis to the theme. There are seven lines before the introduction of the theme, and most of them are metaphors that give details of the speaker 's experience of desire. On line 1, the speaker says "thou fools self-chosen snare" in which the speaker shows his feelings towards the theme, desire, and explains that it is self chosen (Sidney). A self-chosen snare is a metaphor because traps are not usually chosen by the individual, so the speaker states that desire is self-chosen by fools, this may also mean that he believes the trap of desire is chosen when there are few other options, he is basically saying he is a fool. Desire is self destructive and self-chosen, when chosen it makes you "blind" and forgets things that are not relevant to himself. The name of the poem "Thou Blind Man 's Mark" is repeated as the first words of the poem is broken down to signify a blind man 's target, which if a blind man was shooting at a target, it would be rare and would most likely end up going the opposite way than meant to go. This adds up to mean that desire makes you unaware of surroundings and complicates …show more content…
Iambic pentameter means five feet of measure, or 5 areas of stressed and unstressed words within a line and also like a sonnet, every two lines rhyme in order to smooth out the writing, and create an AABB pattern within the poetry. In "Thou Blind Man 's Mark" iambic pentameter is used to relieve the poem of its accusatory tone and almost make the poem into a dance of words and therefore, takes the weight out of it. If read using the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, the poem becomes simpler and less serious and dark toned, the old-fashioned pattern can be a difficult literary tool to work with but when used correctly can relieve weight. In the last six lines of the poem, Sidney no longer has complicated literary devices nor large amounts of metaphors, instead he leans on the iambic pentameter to continue the flow of the poem and to decrease the gloomy
The literary device shows complexity because of the comparison and the uncommon items being compared, another main point of metaphors within the poem is to give emphasis to the theme. There are seven lines before the introduction of the theme, and most of them are metaphors that give details of the speaker 's experience of desire. On line 1, the speaker says "thou fools self-chosen snare" in which the speaker shows his feelings towards the theme, desire, and explains that it is self chosen (Sidney). A self-chosen snare is a metaphor because traps are not usually chosen by the individual, so the speaker states that desire is self-chosen by fools, this may also mean that he believes the trap of desire is chosen when there are few other options, he is basically saying he is a fool. Desire is self destructive and self-chosen, when chosen it makes you "blind" and forgets things that are not relevant to himself. The name of the poem "Thou Blind Man 's Mark" is repeated as the first words of the poem is broken down to signify a blind man 's target, which if a blind man was shooting at a target, it would be rare and would most likely end up going the opposite way than meant to go. This adds up to mean that desire makes you unaware of surroundings and complicates …show more content…
Iambic pentameter means five feet of measure, or 5 areas of stressed and unstressed words within a line and also like a sonnet, every two lines rhyme in order to smooth out the writing, and create an AABB pattern within the poetry. In "Thou Blind Man 's Mark" iambic pentameter is used to relieve the poem of its accusatory tone and almost make the poem into a dance of words and therefore, takes the weight out of it. If read using the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, the poem becomes simpler and less serious and dark toned, the old-fashioned pattern can be a difficult literary tool to work with but when used correctly can relieve weight. In the last six lines of the poem, Sidney no longer has complicated literary devices nor large amounts of metaphors, instead he leans on the iambic pentameter to continue the flow of the poem and to decrease the gloomy