Thou Blind Mans Mark

Life leads us to excessive wishes that often result in a mans downfall. Sir Philip Sidney in the passionate Thou unsighted homos Mark portrays his hypocrisy towards propensity and shows how it influenced to their downfall and destruction. In his sonnet, Sidney uses metaphor, alliteration, repetition and personification to convey his feelings for desire. Throughout Thou Blind Mans Mark Sidney uses metaphors that turn overly illustrates the effects of desire on bingles life. He begins with the metaphor of desire as a artifice mans mark, the title of the poem, that shows desire is aimless.He then goes on to call desire fools chosen snare illustrating that desire is an act of foolishness, nevertheless he adds weight to his accusations by comparing desire to the web of go out a difficulty brought by men upon themselves.. The use of these metaphors allows the reader to check his views that to desire could be counted as the biggest mistake of a persons life. Sidney continues to con vey his dislike of desire with the use of alliteration. He uses alliteration to parallel of latitude desire and increases the readers interest in the poem.The repetition of proper(postnominal) words emphasizes his negative thoughts on desire. For example he says cradle of senseless care. This focuses on the idea that desire can cause unmatched to care about someone for no real reason. He uses this technique again when he says, with price of mangled mind, a uniform idea that while trying to accomplish a foolish line of work he yet didnt achieve anything but still disjointed his sanity. Other example includes fond fancys scum where the poet compares desire to dirt, and illustrates that it is an addiction.Sidney also uses repetition to highlight his consistent encounters with desire. His repetition of too extensive shows his frustration with desire and the long term effects it has on him. It is clear that Sidney is unhappy with the way desire had effected his actions and deci sions he has made in his life. He also repeats in vain that discusses the impact of desire on is life and how it hurts the people that feel desire. He used personification to mortalize his opponent and show life to his hatred of desire.