these poetic lines from Ben Jonson's "Song: To Celia":
1. "For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love,"
- The speaker is pleading (āŠĩિāŠĻંāŠĪી) with someone to stop talking and allow him to express his love freely.
2. "Or chide my palsy, or my gout,"
- The speaker is saying that instead of criticizing or complaining about his physical weaknesses (palsy and gout), the person should let him love.
3. "My five gray hairs, or ruined fortune flout,"
- The speaker asks the person not to mock (āŠŪāŠાāŠ)him for his few gray hairs or his financial losses ("ruined fortune").
4. "With wealth your state, your mind with arts improve,"
-The speaker advises the critic to focus on improving their wealth and mind through learning and the arts.
5. "Take you a course, get you a place,"
- The speaker advises the person to follow a path of knowledge and secure a position or role in society.
6. "Observe his honor āŠļāŠĻ્āŠŪાāŠĻ, or his grace āŠૃāŠŠા ,"
- The person is encouraged to pay attention to matters of honor and grace, likely referring to social or moral values.
7. "Or the king's real, or his stamped face"
- This line could imply that the person should be preoccupied āŠĩ્āŠŊāŠļ્āŠĪ with matters related to the king's authority, whether it's the "real" king or the image ("stamped face") of the king.
8. "Contemplate;āŠિંāŠĪāŠĻ what you will, approve,"
-The speaker tells the critic that they can approve of anything they like.
9. "So you will let me love."
- Ultimately, the speaker's main request is for the person to allow him to love freely, without interference or judgment.
In these lines, the speaker is asking for the freedom to love without being hindered (āŠ
āŠĩāŠ°ોāŠ§િāŠĪ) by external concerns(āŠિંāŠĪા) or distractions(āŠĩિāŠ્āŠ·ેāŠŠ) , and they encourage the other person to focus on their own interests and pursuits(āŠ§ંāŠ§ો) .
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1. "Alas, alas, who's injured by my love?" - The speaker is expressing sadness and questioning if anyone is hurt by their love.
2. "What merchant's ships have my sighs drowned?" - The speaker wonders (āŠāŠķ્āŠāŠ°્āŠŊāŠāŠિāŠĪ) if their sighs (āŠĻિāŠļાāŠļાāŠĨી) of longing( āŠંāŠāŠĻા& desire) have caused harm to merchant ships.
3. "When did the heats which my veins fill" - The speaker asks when their passionate feelings started to warm their veins.
4. "Add one more to the plaguy bill?" - They wonder if their love has added to a list of troubles.
5. "Who says my tears have overflowed his ground?" - The speaker questions if someone accuses āŠāŠ°ોāŠŠ them of shedding so many tears that it floods āŠŠૂāŠ° another person's land.
6. "When did my colds a forward spring remove?" -
They ask when their emotional distance removed a promising season (spring).
7. "Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out still" - The speaker suggests that soldiers find wars to fight, and lawyers always find reasons for disputes (āŠĩિāŠĩાāŠĶો) .
8. "Litigious men, which quarrels move,"
They refer to argumentative people who initiate (āŠķāŠ°ૂ āŠāŠ°āŠĩું )quarrels.
9. "Though she and I do love." - Despite (āŠāŠĪાં) all this, the speaker and their beloved still love each other.
This poem reflects the speaker's concerns āŠિંāŠĪા about the consequences and conflicts āŠĪāŠāŠ°ાāŠ° that love can bring, even though they still love their partner.
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1. "Call us what you will, we are made such by love;" -
The speaker is saying that they are defined by love, regardless āŠ
āŠĻુāŠēāŠ્āŠ·ીāŠĻે of what names or labels people give them.
2. "Call her one, me another fly." - The speaker and their partner are compared to two flies, indicating a sense of unity and togetherness.
3. "We're tapers too, and at our own cost die," - They are like candles (tapers) that burn and ultimately extinguish āŠāŠēāŠĩāŠĩું themselves in the process of love.
4. "And we in us find the eagle and the dove." - Within their relationship, they discover both strength āŠĪાāŠાāŠĪ(eagle) and peace āŠķાંāŠĪિ (dove).
5. "The phoenix riddle hath more wit" - Their love is compared to the mystery of the phoenix, which is known for its rebirth from ashes, suggesting their love also involves transformation.
6. "By us; we two being one, are it." - They are the answer to the mystery of the phoenix because they become one through their love.
7. "So, to one neutral āŠĪāŠāŠļ્āŠĨ thing both sexes fit." - Their love transcends (beyond the range) gender, as they both find a place within this neutral,āŠĪāŠāŠļ્āŠĨ unified āŠāŠીāŠૃāŠĪ entity.āŠ
āŠļ્āŠĪિāŠĪ્āŠĩ
8. "We die and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love." - They experience death and rebirth together in their love, and this unity is seen as a mysterious and profound āŠāŠđāŠĻ aspect āŠŠાāŠļું of their relationship.
In essence, this poem celebrates the idea that love transcends āŠŠાāŠ° āŠāŠ°ે āŠે labels and gender, and it's a transformative force that unites two individuals in a mysterious and powerful way.
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1. "We can die by it, if not live by love,"
- This line suggests that love can either lead to our downfall or be the reason for our existence.
2. "And if unfit for tombs and hearse"
- If we're not suitable for traditional burial in graves and hearses (vehicles used for transporting the dead),
3. "Our legend be, it will be fit for verse;"
- Our story or legacy will still be appropriate for poetry;
4. "And if no piece of chronicle we prove,"
- Even if our story isn't recorded in historical records,
5. "We'll build in sonnets pretty rooms;"
- We'll create beautiful rooms for our love in the form of sonnets (short poems).
6. "As well a well-wrought urn becomes"
- Just like a finely āŠŽાāŠ°ીāŠ crafted urn (a container for ashes),
7. "The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs,"
- Can be as fitting for holding the ashes of a person as large half-acre tombs are.
8. "And by these hymns, all shall approve"
- Through these poems and songs,
9. "Us canonized for Love."
- We will be celebrated and regarded as saints of love.
In essence, the poem explores the idea that love can be both destructive (āŠĩિāŠĻાāŠķāŠ )and constructive,āŠ°āŠāŠĻાāŠĪ્āŠŪāŠ and it can elevate āŠļુāŠ§ાāŠ°āŠĩું ordinary people into legends through poetry and hymns.
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1. "And thus invoke us: 'You, whom reverend love'"
- This is calling upon a special couple who deeply respected and loved each other.
2. "Made one another's hermitage;"
- They found comfort and refuge(shelter) in each other, like hermits in a quiet place.
3. "You, to whom love was peace, that now is rage;"
- Their love once brought peace but has now turned into anger or conflict.
4. "Who did the whole world's soul contract, and drove
Into the glasses of your eyes"
- Their love made the world seem smaller and focused when they looked at it.
6. "(So made such mirrors, and such spies, That they did all to you epitomize)"
- Their eyes acted like mirrors and spies, summarizing everything they saw and making it meaningful.
7. "Countries, towns, courts: beg from above A pattern of your love!'"
- They're asking for divine approval or guidance for their unique love.
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