e frame is widened beyond the girl in the following stanzas to reveal the oppression becoming more visible and threatening” “The language of love and purity combines with triumphant rise to power” “The reformers at that time also sought to legislate a new order and saw themselves as being of “high cause” “here is a young vigin who says ‘no’ to a lover and is attempting to rout ‘love’ from the kingdom” “although the poem begins in present tense it is lear by stanza 3 that the speaker already knows what will happen in the future

e frame is widened beyond the girl in the following stanzas to reveal the oppression becoming more visible and threatening”
“The language of love and purity combines with triumphant rise to power”
“The reformers at that time also sought to legislate a new order and saw themselves as being of “high cause”
“here is a young vigin who says ‘no’ to a lover and is attempting to rout ‘love’ from the kingdom”
“although the poem begins in present tense it is lear by stanza 3 that the speaker already knows what will happen in the future, and the certainty with which he announces his desire to hide from the nymphs ‘force'”
“praise is the strategy the speaker uses to remain safe”
“the poem ends with a warning that someone will come to reform them”
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