LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Twelfth Night
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A Mid Summer Nights’ Dream
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As you Like it
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The Winters’ Tale
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Detailed explanation-1: -The first line of the play Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare. The speaker is asking for music because he is frustrated in courtship; he wants an overabundance of love so that he may lose his appetite for it.
Detailed explanation-2: -Is “If music be the food of love” a metaphor? Yes, the first line of Twelfth Night initiates an extended metaphor. It compares music and food. The speaker asserts that if “music” is the food of love that with too much music, he’ll grow sick (as if eating too much) of his love.
Detailed explanation-3: -At his court, Orsino, sick with love for the Lady Olivia, learns from his messenger that she is grieving for her dead brother and refuses to be seen for seven years. If music be the food of love, play on. Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.
Detailed explanation-4: -If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die. That strain again, it had a dying fall.