1. Redefining the Love Poem
Carew writes: Ask me no more where those stars light That downwards fall in dead of night; For in your eyes they sit, and there, Fixed become as in their sphere. (lines 13-16) Similar to how the golden atoms were infused with the woman's hair when the light of day faded, Carew portrays the woman's eyes as being the spheres that contain the stars' light. Her eyes, though, don't contain the light of just any stars, but rather that of shooting stars (as implied by "downwards fall" in line 14). This distinction is important because by containing the shooting stars wit...
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