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A 3 page essay that analyzes Shakespeare's Sonnet 147, "My love is a fever, longing still." The writer argues that Shakespeare makes use of an extended metaphor that compares the love he harbors for an unnamed woman to an insidious disease. The terminology of disease gives Shakespeare a far different vocabulary from the one that is typically employed to describe love, but serves Shakespeare's purposes well. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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disease gives Shakespeare a far different vocabulary from the one that is typically employed to describe love. However, this vocabulary serves Shakespeares purpose admirably as he obviously does not wish
to long for this woman and does not consider her worthy of tender emotions. However, his body betrays him and his reason, and he continues to desire her, making
love akin to a "disease," as this desire is obviously not in his best interests. Shakespeare establishes his metaphor with the first lines: "My love is a fever, longing
still/For that which longer nurseth the disease" (lines 1-2). His love is similar to a fever, but also different because his "fever" longs for the source of his illness. Mabillards
interpretation of Sonnet 147 verifies this conclusion. Also, the next lines emphasize this point. It reads, "Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill, The uncertain sickly appetite to please"
(lines 3-4). The love that Shakespeare describes is not life-giving or restorative, which is the usual perspective on love. His distaste for the object of this "sick" love is shown
in his choice of words, that is, calling his desire for her a "sickly appetite." The next lines address Shakespeares faculty of reason, which serves as "physician" to his
condition, maintaining his extended metaphor. "My reason, the physician to my love,/ Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, / Hath left me" (lines 5-7). In other words, Shakespeare knows
that his desire for his woman is illogical. His reason has given multiple reasons ("prescriptions") on how to handle this affair, which the poet has not followed. Therefore, Shakespeare asserts
that his reason, angry at being ignored, has left him altogether. In the next lines, Shakespeare indicates that he longs for death, but this is an avenue that reason will
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