How does the nightingale describe Love? “Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, not is it set forth in the market- place. It may not be purchased of the merchants, nor can it be weighed out in the balance for gold. ” Love is more desirable than precious stones such as “emeralds” or “fine opals”.
It can’t be bought by “pearls and pomegranates” or sold in the “market- lace”. Oscar Willed uses metaphor to describe love: Love is a wonderful thing. The tone of the nightingale is confident while talking about love because she knows a lot about it. 2) How does the nightingale describe the student? “Here at last is a true lover,” said the Nightingale. “Night after night have I sung of him, though I knew him not: night after night have I told his story to the stars, and now I see him.
His hair is dark as the hyacinth-blossom, and his lips are red as the SSE of his desire; but passion has made his lace like pale ivory, and sorrow has set her seal upon his brow. ” The nightingale describes the student as a true romantic. She’s a singer so she always sings about love and she’s saying that she sings about him even though she hasn’t met him. Oscar Willed uses simile to describe the student a lot such as “his hair is dark as the hyacinth-blossom”,