“Late schoolboys, and sour prentices,
Go tell court-huntsmen that the king will ride, Call country ants to
harvest offices” (648)
My guess: I think that my lack of
understanding of this passage is because it is a mixture of cultural
phrases that I am not familiar with as well as symbolism. The poem is
about love, so I am guessing that the author is professing his love
throughout the poem. I think that the “schoolboy”, the
“prentices”, the “court-huntsmen” and the “country ants”
that the speaker is talking about are representative of all different
kinds of people from the time period. He is professing his love when
he says “go tell” and “call” all the different people; he
wants everyone to know the love he has for someone.
Research: “'Prentices' are
apprentices, who (like today's sullen teens) oversleep; "motions"
are regular changes, such as sunset or sunrise, spring or fall. Donne
and Anne (we might as well call her Anne) believe it's more important
to be in love than to be on time: they won't let the hour, or the
month, or even their relative ages, tell them what to do”
Explanation: With the research above
and other information that I found I discovered that the true meaning
of the passage is the speaker criticizing all those who are ruled by
the hours of the day. The speaker is saying that love is not
dependent on time or duty. Before I thought that the speaker was
professing his love to all the different kinds of people, but really
he is saying that the love he feels is not restricted like the duties
of all those people.
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