One sees more devils than vast hell can hold: / That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic…” (5.1.5-10) The triple comparison between a lunatic, a lover, and a poet, highlights the assumed commonalty that all three types of people have unsound thoughts. Since a “lunatic” is a wildly foolish person and a poet has “remarkable powers of imagination, creativity, and expression” (OED Online) one may assume that a lover possess both these attributes due to the involvement in this comparison. If a lover has the attributes of a “lunatic” it is safe to presume that a lover’s love is complex since it would involve a lot of wild occasions. Though lovers may experience intricacy in their love an uncertainty is affecting its lasting ability. This uncertainty is due to the unreality of a lover’s thoughts as well as the different expressions they may go
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold: / That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic…” (5.1.5-10) The triple comparison between a lunatic, a lover, and a poet, highlights the assumed commonalty that all three types of people have unsound thoughts. Since a “lunatic” is a wildly foolish person and a poet has “remarkable powers of imagination, creativity, and expression” (OED Online) one may assume that a lover possess both these attributes due to the involvement in this comparison. If a lover has the attributes of a “lunatic” it is safe to presume that a lover’s love is complex since it would involve a lot of wild occasions. Though lovers may experience intricacy in their love an uncertainty is affecting its lasting ability. This uncertainty is due to the unreality of a lover’s thoughts as well as the different expressions they may go