Song By Lady Mary Wroth Analysis

The poem “Song (Love, a child, is ever crying)” was written by Lady Mary Wroth in London of 1620. Wroth has made this poem into a comparison of her love to a child throwing a tantrum. Throughout the poem she has made claims for a man natural greed to take from a woman. “Give him more, he the more is craving”. During Wroth’s time it was not common for a man to romanticize like a woman normally would. A man during that time had more freedom at the cost of a woman’s social requirement to always be mature and forgiving towards a man. She has suggested that love for man is like a child cry for a child is not fully matured and carries illogical demands but is unable to understand the greater picture. This poem displays a level of stability and a constant through the rhyme pattern AA BB AA giving meaning
As she continues to criticize the characteristics of a man in her point of view, critics have noticed that she may have used to the word cozen in the line “He vows nothing hut false matter; And to cozen you he’ll flatter.” This line could hold many different meaning, two of which being the trait of a man to always portray false information, in other words lie and second implying her adulteress relationship with her already married cousin. Later on in the poem, Wroth continues to compare the idea of love through the use of figurative language by creating a sense of imagery in stanza four. “Feathers are as firm in staying” contradicting the original sense of stability in her rhyming sequence of love being deviceful by implying that love in is in fact fairly unstable just like if a feather was ever to attempt to stand on its tip without falling over. She also creates a sense of danger when she goes no to describe “wolves no fiercer in their praying”. This line stresses on the idea that love will ultimately destroy