As expected, a wave comes and washes away her name. And, let's just go ahead and say it: it's one of the most important poems ever written. And if I speake, her wrath renew I shall: and if I silent be, my hart will breake, or choked be with ouerflowing gall. They describe an incident in which Cupid comes across the speaker's beloved, but mistakes her for his own mother, Venus, goddess of love and beauty. And since that time he wounded hath my selfe with his sharpe dart of loue; And now forgets the cruell carelesse elfe, his mothers heast to proue. Where whenas death shall all the world subdew, Our love shall live, and later life renew.
This feeling is appropriate to the liturgical season, in which Christians eagerly await unification with God's spirit, which he sends down to them on Pentecost. Edmund Spenser was born in 1552 and died in 1599. This preserves the Iambic rhythm of the sonnet from the outset. Sometimes I ioy when glad occasion fits, and mask in myrth lyke to a Comedy: soone after when my ioy to sorrow flits, I waile and make my woes a Tragedy. Here we know that his lover believes that everything will subdue to the power of nature and everyone will die just like everything else on the earth but the poet believes otherwise. Therefore O loue, vnlesse she turne to thee ere Cuckow end, let her a rebell be.
How slowly does sad Time his feathers moue? The Faerie Queene is one of the longest poems in the English language and it originated the Spenserian sonnet form. The rhyme scheme in the sestet is flexible to a point. Overall, Sonnet 75 is a poem about a man promising eternal love to his beloved one. But if her nature and her wil be so, that she will plague the man that loues her most: and take delight t'encrease a wretches woe, then all her natures goodly guifts are lost And that same glorious beauties ydle boast, is but a bayt such wretches to beguile: as being long in her loues tempest tost, she meanes at last to make her piteous spoyle. The whole of it is a metrical tour de force that sets the dramatic, angry, sonnet on its way.
This couplet embraces the theme of the poem that their love will not fade away like other mortal things on earth. As we know, love is a mortal thing when one, or both partners depart from this earth, their love will slowly fade from the consciousness of people. The last feature to notice is that the final line, line 14, retains a little of the pithy epigrammatic quality of the typical English or Shakespearean Sonnet. This is the sort variation that perfectly exploits the expectations established by a metrical pattern. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. Most often the speaker dwells upon his beloved's beauty, both inner and outer, and the overpowering effects this beauty has upon him. Despite the fact of the poet's beloved discouraging him, he never did give up but instead he proved his point by immortalizing his love towards his wife through his words and writing elements.
Amoretti LXXV: One Day I Wrote her Name by Edmund Spenser
From the third sonnet through the sixty-second sonnet, the speaker is in an slmost constant state of emotional turmoil and frustrated hopes. The third my loue, my liues last ornament, by whom my spirit out of dust was raysed: to speake her prayse and glory excellent, of all aliue most worthy to be praysed. Then would I decke her head with glorious bayes, and fill the world with her victorious prayse. Yet since your light hath once enlumind me, with my reflex yours shall encreased be. Nathlesse doe ye still loud her prayses sing, That all the woods may answer and your eccho ring.
He rejoices that she has surrendered to him, but is mystified and perhaps further pleased that she has done it not under duress, but of her own free will. Mongst whome the more I seeke to settle peace, the more I fynd their malice to increace. Fayre be ye sure, but hard and obstinate, as is a rocke amidst the raging floods: gaynst which a ship of succour desolate, doth suffer wreck both of her selfe and goods. Mongst which there in a siluer dish did ly, twoo golden apples of vnualewd price: far passing those which Hercules came by, or those which Atalanta did entice. Where whenas death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew. Which when as fame in her shrill trump shal thunder let the world chose to enuy or to wonder. What interests me more is puzzling out the aesthetic effects these different rhyme schemes produce.
So long as you afford to others the dignity and respect for life and liberty you would afford yourself, it doesn't matter to me where you're from, what language you speak or what truth you believe in. He only fayre, and what he fayre hath made, all other fayre lyke flowres vntymely fade. Also, many Petrarchan sonnets of the day were written to unattainable women, some of who were married to other men. Fayre be ye sure but proud and pittilesse, as is a storme, that all things doth prostrate: finding a tree alone all comfortlesse, beats on it strongly it to ruinate. Within my hart, though hardly it can shew, thing so diuine to vew of earthly eye: the fayre Idea of your celestiall hew, and euery part remaines immortally: And were it not that, through your cruelty, with sorrow dimmed and deformd it were: the goodly ymage of your visnomy, clearer then christall would therein appere. Then he wrote the poem Epithalamion about their wedding. Here, too, the speaker turns his attention from his earlier aspects of the beloved's physical beauty--her eyes and her hair in particular--and begins to be more familiar with her, to the point of describing in detail the scent of her breasts.
Yet are mine eyes so filled with the store of that faire sight, that nothing else they brooke, but lothe the things which they did like before, and can no more endure on them to looke. The cycle describes his courtship and eventual marriage to Elizabeth Boyle. The Elizabethans were an intellectually rigorous bunch, which is one of the reasons I enjoy their poetry so much. Yet Spenser rhymed with the ease of a cook dicing carrots. Each of these is intended to convey some aspect of his beloved's character or his own fears and apprehensions.
