George Gascoigne For That He Looked Not Upon Her Summary

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To love so much, yet to have those feels not returned is such an embarrassment and is painful. In George Gascoigne's poem For That He Looked Not upon Her, expresses the pain of the narrator by using an a,b,a,b pattern, imagery, and elements of light. With Gascoigne's poem, he uses an a,b,a,b pattern. The reason why he would do this is so that the poem has an easier flow. For example he wrote,"...again with fire...grievous is the game...dazzled by desire...down my head." Instead of trying to make the whole poem rhyme he used a mixture of words so that the poem was easier to read, and the flow of the poem was more relaxed. Then in this poem, Gascoigne uses imagery to describe the pain of being hurt by love, and never trusting love again. "The