Louise Labe’s Sonnets depicts her pleasure and pain from love. The theme of the Sonnets is dark and depressed. Throughout the Sonnets, Labe expresses her passion and longing for love. “Of you I complain, of all these tongues of fire, that touch my heart so often, with desire, without one single spark scorching you” (Sonnet 2). Labe is putting herself through so much pain for love, while her loved one doesn’t seem to be bothered by it at all, which makes her hurt even more.
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I agree with you that Labe is a woman hurt by love. Throughout the sonnets, she mentions numerous times about crying and hurting for love. However, she seems to get pleasure out of it and desires it even more.
I love how Labé was emotional in her writing, and not shy to show them. Exemplifying how women were and are usually the more emotional ones. She lead by example by showing other women that it is ok to suffer and be in love, that they too deal with the same feeling and they can also feel free to express their emotions.