Asap. 60 pionts. a thousand martyrs by aphra behn a thousand martyrs i have made, all sacrificed to my desire; a thousand beauties have betrayed, that languish in resistless fire. the untamed heart to hand i brought, and fixed the wild and wandering thought. i never vowed nor sighed in vain but both, though false, were well received. the fair are to give us pain, and what they wish is soon believed. and though i talked of wounds and smart, love’s pleasures only touched my heart. alone the glory and the spoil i always laughing bore away; the triumphs, without pain or toil, without the hell, the heav’n of joy. and while i thus at random rove despise the fools that whine for love how does the author’s use of stanzas affect the meaning of “a thousand martyrs”? use evidence from the poem to support your response. your response should be at least one complete paragraph.

Basically, here we have a libertine speaker talking of many lovers. He suggests that, though he has spoken about the pain of love, it is only ‘Love’s pleasures’ that he cares about. As such, he has ‘betrayed’ ‘a thousand beauties’. He claims to have been a callous and deceiving lover, telling ‘the fair’ about the ‘wounds and smart’ they long to hear of, then ‘laughing’ and leaving. The poem is written in three elegant septets. Notice the iambic tetrameter and consider how important form might be to the theme of this particular kind of love and betrayal.

This speaker may not be entirely honest. The final stanza begins with ‘Alone’. Is there any sense of regret here? The speaker claims to be ‘Without the hell’ of love, yet in the same line we find reference to the ‘heaven of joy’. He  may even also sacrificed his joy with his promiscuous love

the quote by walter cronkite contributes to the central idea of the text by supporting the central idea. cronkite argues that what is deemed “right” for and in america may not be good for other countries. this supports the central idea of the text, that the vietnam war was unpopular in america for multiple reasons- including cronkite’s.