[Fortune Hath Taken Thee Away, My Love]
Raleigh argues that Love is reliant on on fortune when he writes, “Fortune hath taken thee away, my love…/ Thus now I leave my love in fortune’s hands.” These two lines render Raleigh’s ideology on the pivotal correlation between love and fortune. According to the ideology, fortunate individuals acquire love whereas the unfortunate ones do not. The fortune comes from the prodigious Cupid. Raleigh observes, “Fortune that rules on earth and earthly things/Hath taken my love in spite of Cupid’s might;/So blind a dame did never Cupid right.” Alluding to Cupid’s stimulus, the author indicates that humans must supplicate Cupid to bestow upon them love. Cupid’ blindness could be construed to signify the adverse fortune that would not warranty love.
“A Farewell to False Love”
The Legal allusion to treason portrays the concentration and repugnance of the betrayal that comes from ‘false love.’ Raleigh states, “A way of error, a temple full of treason,/In all effects contrary unto reason.” Treason is a momentous infidelity that would warrant a death penalty in some republics. Misguiding someone with deceitful love is as excruciating as betraying one’s country through subversion.
Raleigh alludes to the Religious allusion of the devious serpent when he states, “A poisoned serpent covered all with flowers.” The flowers are concealers that shroud the fraudulence of the snake whose target is to exterminate the victim’s heart through the conceited love in the equivalent way that the Biblical serpent morally hoodwinked Adam and Eve.
“The Passionate Man’s Pilgrimage”
The foremost ingredients of passion include Quietness, faithfulness, joy and hopefulness. Mortality does not shrink the passion for it is congenital. The passionate man is certain about rising above immortality for he believes, “And when our bottles and all we/Are fill’d with immortality,/Then the holy paths we’ll travel,/Strew’d with rubies thick as gravel,/Ceilings of diamonds, sapphire floors,/High walls of coral, and pearl bowers.” The ‘hole paths’ refer to the consecrated Heaven where the individuals who are passionate in Christ will inhabit. The imagery of “ Christ is the king’s attorney,/Who pleads for all without degrees,/And he hath angels, but no fees./When the grand twelve million jury” is alluring for the passionate Christians who will be acclaimed by the unprejudiced Jury after which they will be shepherded into the Kingdom of interminable life. Christ’s decree will endorse that the passion for Christ was not in unproductive; thus the pilgrimage of passion will be unqualifiedly recompensing.
