In Class Essay: Desire

*How poetic devices help to convey the speaker's complex attitude toward desire

Prewrite:
-Lines 1-4 says how desire is evil, a bad thing to have but it also can play an important role as a motivator
-The narrator states that people finally realize that desire is bad when they are rock bottom
-Rhyming, fluid tempo, slow, regretful, sorrow? not really but somewhat dark/sad

     Desire, wanting something causing you to act differently in order to attain it. Most people all have desires, whether it is small or something large, it's something quite inevitable. In the peom Thou Blind Man's Mark by Sir Phillip Sidney, he expresses the misfortunes of desire through his tone, mood, rhyming patterns, syntax and diction.
     The poem starts with the ideas that desire is evil, up to no good. Although at first it may play a role to you as a motivation, soon desire will lead to more desire, causing you to become greedy and in the process, hurting others in order to get what you want.
     At first, I felt as if the repetitive rhyming scheme seemed to take the seriousness and the mood of the poem, but the more you read it and understand the context, you start to understand that the rhyming plays a role to maintain the connection of desire and the nagative outcomes forplaying. The poem has a fluid tempo which helps ellaborate the point across, making it easier to read. The mood, tone, syntax and diction used by the author helps convey the exact emotion and thought of the author about the subject of desire.
     It is clear that desire seems to be the downfall of most people yet we cannot stop the feeling of wanting something, because of course that is what keeps us going. The authors uses of the poetic devices such as the rhyming, and the use of specific negative words, illustrates a gloomy aura for the poem as a whole making it obvious of the distaste desire brings.