GLOSSARY

 

Unknown words & Figurative usage

 

Sonnet I

Stanza I

2. Wanting: lacking, not as great

4. Give reflections to: be similar with, show respect to, make use of

 

Stanza II

1. Fight for what is fought: do same things again

2. Void: outwit, be far greater than

3. In dreams for all: having many set targets, willing to perform many different thing

4. Time's false compass: anything that bears the sign of time(clock, calendar, age...)

4. Break (time's false compass): be not affected from, be in contrast to, overcome the influence of

 

Stanza III

4. The ticking death: time (the awareness of time limits)

 

Couplet

2. Barren (minds): not thinking, lacking wit

2. Lace: adorn (with thoughts through art)

 

Sonnet II

Stanza I

1. Muse: any of nine goddesses who are associated with inspiration and creativity for the arts (Greek Mythology); poet's source of inspiration

 

1. Muse to all earthly hues: the only presence where the colours derive their willingness for vividity and diversity from

4. Guided: used, held

 

Stanza III

1. Mage of the death: the Moon; despite the very fact that the moon itself is just a formation of stone, it steals life(its light) from the Sun and thrives to look alive. Only mages can do such things. Moon creates life out of its dead body with thievish deeds.

 

Couplet

1. The daily star: the Sun

2. [prose]: or he will lack variation and we will lack being praised; therefore having equal status (with you)

 

Sonnet III

Stanza I

2. Just of injustice: Sentences like "I just want to see Mom but she is far too away from here" or "Please ! Listen to me; it's not like that; I just wanted to...". Note the injustice in both of the sentences. Injustice in the 1st: the speaker's Mom is too away, injustice in the 2nd: the speaker has misunderstood.

4. Recry: cry(shout) back (at the court)

 

Stanza II

whole stanza

This stanza tells what the Sun does to the writer. In order to be able to make the writer write not about herself, the sun unwillingly burns his colours in his hands; in other words, she, during the day, decreases the diversity of his thoughts to a single colour; black. Therefore the ink, what a writer needs most to write, is black and every written word is acerb as would be expected from the taste of something burnt.

Stanza III

whole stanza [from the mouth of the Sun]

The writer will not be able to write during the day because of what I(the sun) will do him but when as soon as the night comes he will redeem his strength and use his words against me (by dispraising, or by praising others like the court (other stars) and the mage of the death (moon)). His words will be sharp as sword for giving me as much pain as possible.

Couplet

whole couplet [from the mouth of the  Sun]

Whatever he does, seeing his face will be my cure. And for giving my lover back only with this much pain, I curse you; he will use ink for writing (suggesting the idea that he had not been using before) and for that reason, his art will lack colour and will be worse than it used to be.

 

Sonnet IV

Stanza II

2. [info]: see her poem where it reads "sea: wherein glistening stars swam"

4. [line]: demanding immortality from the oblivious(cruel) Time

 

Stanza III

3. (sweet wit) to flourish: meant to flourish [as in "Thou art (meant) to create"]

 

Couplet

2. Water trees with ink: let thoughts grow further by writing, stabilize thoughts

2. Fell: be overcome, be not given value, be cut down by Time's scythe (which is, the hands of a clock)

 

Sonnet V

Stanza I

1. Player: player or actor

2. Word's one most witted mage: the person who plays best with the words, who uses them most effectively

 

Stanza II

3. Ride from mood to mood: play with the psychological state (of someone)

4. Draw on maps: know where exactly something is

 

Stanza III - what Time can be doing

1. [line]: bringing life

2. [line]: letting life grow mature

3. [line]: stopping life from going further, causing uncertainty or fear (which leaf could know when the snow would melt off ?)

4. [line]: bringing death (to anything it finds valueless)

 

Sonnet VI

Stanza I

2. Steal momemnts from time: paint (draw, sketch...)

3. Depart: go away from this Earth

 

Stanza II

1. Pen each bud inside thy heart: write every single thing you want

 

other lines

whenever you look upon(at) black ink, remember that it is  to help you create, be different, and perceive things and you, using it, will be far less likely to be beguiled or to deceive yourself and most important; using it, you will not lack colours, instead, you will learn how to create colours(emotional states, different tastes of reading) from something colourless.

Stanza III

1. For thine in reply: to be replied by you or with your own words

3. Fair matters: thoughts, feelings...

4. Pare off for more food: wear off the outside(protection) of something with the purpose of destroying what's inside. [outside(that which is pared off): thoughts, inside(food): one's self]

 

Couplet

1. & 2. Be: Be with your art, go on with what you are doing, be with(near) me

2. This false self amend: improve myself up to a point where I can redeem my self-esteem

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