SONG FOR CELIA

BEN JOHNSON

BIO

• Birthname was Francis Benjamin Johnson Jr.
• A ranch hand and rodeo performer when, in 1940,Howard Hughes hired him to take a load of horses to California.

Bio

• His break came when John Ford noticed him and gave him a part in an upcoming film, and eventually a star part in Wagon Master (1950).
• He left Hollywood in 1953 to return to rodeo, where he won a world roping championship, but at the end of the year he had barely cleared expenses.

BIO

• He is best known for satirical plays such as Every Man in His Humour (1958) Volpone, or The Foxe( 1605), The Alchemist (1610), and Bartholomew Fayre: A Comedy (1614) • Regarded as the second most important English dramatist after Shakespeare

PERSONA/ SPEAKER

PERSONA

• The speaker shows a lover. A lover of Celia who puts in words on how much he loves her. He shows that he doesn’t want wine but the kiss from the cup she drank from. And he rejects Jove’s immortalizing drink for Celia’s mortal elixir of love.

persona

• He also sent a wreath of roses for her to keep and not to be withered, what Celia did was send it back with a breath which he thinks will not wither because of her breath. So basically he’s dying to tell Celia how much he loves her.

IMAGERY

imagery

• WINE : implies intoxication, the delirium of love, but also sensual gratification. The substitutes that the poet is willing to accept seem more ethereal: the glance, the kiss in a cup.

Imagery

• ROSE: archetypal symbol of love in the English tradition. The wreath consists of a number of roses woven into a circle, which is itself a symbol of eternity.

FIGURES OF SPEECH

figures of speech

• The "Song:To Celia" is an epigram that appluads love. The author, Ben Johnson, incorporates figurative language such as personification for example "Time will not be ours forever : He, at length, our good will sever"(3-4.149) to personify "time" and how it lives forever.

figures of speech

• Also another figurative language such as metaphor "Tis no sin love's fruit to steal, But the sweet theft to reveal:"(15-16.149) is used to say how they are stealing time and using it for loving eachother. The theme is eternal love which is noticed in "Tis no sin love's fruit to steal,

figures of speech

• But the sweet theft to reveal:"(15-16.149) to show their love for eachother and how they should forget how time passes by and how their youth is fading but they should just focus on loving one another.

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