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Summary Of For That He Looked Not Upon Her By George Gascoigne

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The sixteenth century English poet George Gascoigne’s poem “For That He Looked Not upon Her” is a poem of pain and suffering that is received from this other person or lover who is a woman. Gascoigne uses an excellent approach in portraying the speaker’s feelings through Gascoigne’s closed-form Shakespearian sonnet, visual diction, and animalistic and nature like imagery.
George Gascoigne’s closed-form on, “For That He Looked Not upon Her”, is anything if not an excellent portrayal of a sonnet. When you excavate into this sonnet it becomes abundantly clear that this poem is indeed a Shakespearian Sonnet. Gascoigne uses the designated fourteen lines that contains three quatrains and a single rhyming couplet to express the speakers sorrow because
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