Katie Gross

4 Mrs. Dolcini
March 26, 2015
The Script/ Edmund Spenser Compare and Contrast
1) A paradox from the song breakeven is just prayed to a God that I dont believe in.
The poem also has a paradox in it, saying which all things melts, should harden ice,
This is saying that that everything cold should harden into ice, but instead it melts. His
love is the exact opposite of him, doing everything and choosing the different path of him
in every decision. Instead of doing what he does, and following his path, she chooses a
whole different path and decides to go the exact opposite way.
2) There are many slants written in the poem and song. Two slants written in the song
breakeven are leaving, even and pain, blame. Since he is singing about the loss of the
girl he loved, her leaving him made him stronger, and to grow more even. The blame
and pain that the girl caused him to suffer. He loved her a lot, and to have her walk out on
him really hurt him.
3) A metaphor in the song Breakeven is cause when a heart break it dont break even.
He isnt literally meaning that the heart breaks in two, but that his loss and pain hurts like
his heart broke. A simile from Sonnet 30 is My love is like to ice, and I to fire: He
refers to himself to the fire, bright and beautiful. His love the ice: the exact opposite. She
is cold, and vain.
4) In the first line, when the narrator says my love is like to ice, and I to fire, I know he is
referring to a woman because he is comparing her ice, saying she is ice and he is fire. He
and his love are one thing, but ice and fire are the exact opposite, so he is referring to the
woman he loves.
5) Mr. Edmund Spenser is very creative and clever when it comes to exaggeration! When e
says Such is the power of love in gentle mind, that it can alter all the course of kind. He
doesnt actually mean that love can change the world, but that it is such a powerful
emotion to have. Love can break things, or mend them back together in a short time. I
believe that you can go very far in the world if you have people who care and love you by
your side.
6) The rhyme scheme in Sonnet 30 is abab, cdcd, efef, gg. Lots of people call this rhyme
scheme the Shakespearean Sonnet because Shakespeare loved to use this type of rhyme
scheme in his poems.
7) Spenser uses the two words, wonderful and miraculous in a very strange, yet compelling
way. When he says, what more of a miraculous thing may be told, that fire, which all
things melts, should harden ice, he is trying to put out that he doesnt know anything

stranger that his love can push her away. Instead of using miraculous as something that
brings joy and surprise, but uncomfortable and upsetting.
8) I enjoyed breakeven more than Sonnet 30 because I could decipher the script better.
There were parts of the Sonnet that were very confusing, and I had to reread it multiple
times, whereas the song I connected with on the first read. I also liked how The Script
chose their wording and how to tell the story better than the Sonnet.
9) The fact that both of these pieces of artwork both focus on the same topic, heartbreak,
and are almost 400 years apart shows how much humans follow each others footsteps.
We have evolved tremendously, and have advanced in many aspects of our society, but
when it comes to our emotions and morality, we are still stuck on how to untwist and
understand them. The people who understand them and chose to not manipulate them go
so much farther in the world than people who dont. I dont believe that we will ever to
fully understand our emotions.