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Jan 16, 2024 · Introduction. Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover? It is a poem by Sir John Suckling. In this poem, the poet is unable to understand his friend’s lovesickness and questions it. He points out to his friend that this unrequited love of his is making him sick and introverted.
love,” the speaker warns, “nothing can make her”: behaving like a heartbroken lover changes nothing. Love hurts, this poem suggests, but refusing to move on hurts more, and makes you look like a fool in the process. If someone won’t love you back, the only sensible thing to do is throw up your hands and say, “The devil take her.”
Jul 31, 2021 · In Sir John Suckling’s “Why so pale and wan fond lover?,” two men are discussing how one of them can’t make a woman fall in love with him no matter what he does. The speaker repeatedly asks the other man why he’s so pale and so quiet.
In this poem, a speaker counsels his heartbroken friend to stop moping around over an unrequited love. If the friend's beloved had no time for him when he was cheerful and lively, the speaker says, why on earth would she change her mind now that the friend is "pale," "dull," and generally a drag?
Aug 15, 2024 · He does not sing the song to a fond lover; rather he sings it to the platonic ladies, Semanthe and Orithie. While they await the arrival of the queen, they ask Orsames to sing.
'Fond' has two meanings: 'loving' 'foolish'/'over-optimistic' Burns may be criticising himself for loving unwisely- a woman that is already married. 'sever'...'for ever!'- amplifies sense of death and finality.
The poem, which describes two lovers parting, was sent by Burns to a woman he loved just before she left Scotland, never to see Burns again. The poem has the highly regular structure, meter, and rhyme scheme of a song lyric, and Burns intended it to be set to the tune of a Scottish folk song.
