“Noah’s Flood”
Michael Drayton’s “Noah’s Flood” is fundamentally a religious allusion to the Biblical narrative regarding the deluge that inundated the entire world save for Noah’s household and handpicked fauna. Noah hid from the torrent because it was terminal. Comparatively, Michael Drayton requests God, “free soul thy wondrous works may show,/ Then like that deluge shall my numbers flow,/ Telling the state wherein the earth then stood,/ The giant race, the universal flood.” Drayton’s application suggests that he covets an overflowing boon whose greatness is comparable to "Noah’s floods.” The boon would sanction Drayton to broadcast God’s sacredness.
“Idea XX: An evil spirit, your beauty, haunts me still”
Michael Drayton principally utilizes paradox in “Idea XX: An evil spirit, your beauty, haunts me still” when he asserts, “By this good-wicked spirit, sweet angel-devil.” Wickedness and goodness are mutually exclusive. Similarly, angels and devils do not correspond. The paradox underscores the provocativeness of the addressee’s gorgeousness. The exquisiteness is so seductive that activates Drayton’s tears. The extremity of the gorgeousness torments Drayton unremittingly. Besides, the paradoxical title that conglomerates evilness and beauty amplifies the lingering implications of the prettiness.
“ Sonnet III-Taking My Pen”
“ Sonnet III-Taking My Pen” is a supreme personal quantitative valuation that encompasses: summation of cares, division of ‘fatal hours’, and subtraction of “sweets unto my sours.” The quantitative analysis informs Drayton’s conclusion about the bankruptcy of love. “ Sonnet III-Taking My Pen” renders Love a business pact that necessitates the submission of usury.
