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Commentary "On my first sonne" How does the poet Ben Jonson use structure and language to convey the message of the poem? In the poem "on My first sonne" the poet uses different language techniques of language and structure to convey the message of the poem. The main message of the poem is to demonstrate how the poet or the narrator feels because of his loss which is in this case his son, a development …

…joy, "pay" and "just day" might mean that the narrator didn't want his son to go but he was taken from him "on the just day". God took away the child after "seven yeeres". The child had only been "lent" to the narrator but his "sinne was too much hope of thee" (the narrator's sin expecting too much from the child) and because of this he has to "pay" for those "seven yeeres" of "joy".