Edmund Spenser: Poet and Sonneteer
Edmund Spenser, an English poet renowned for "The Faerie Queen," pioneered modern English verse. He also popularized sonnets, including the unique Spenserian form. His work "Amoretti" is a sonnet sequence chronicling his courtship and marriage. Explore Sonnet 75 from "Amoretti," where Spenser contemplates the immortality of love through poetry. Delve into the themes of love, mortality, and the power of verse in preserving memories.
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Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) Edmund Spenser was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queen, an unfinished epic poem and fanastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is the recognized as one of the premier craftsman of nascent modern English verse and is often considered one of the greatest poets in the English language.
Sonnet ,a 14 lines poem with a variable rhyme scheme originating in italy and brought into England by Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, earl of Surrey in 16thcentury. Sonnets were of two main types: Italian or petrachan and Shakespearen Sonnet and apart from them other was Spenserian Sonnet. Spenserian was developed by Edmund Spenser, this is a sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentametre. The rhyme scheme of speserian sonnet is abab bcbc cdcd ee
Amoretti(1595) A Sonnet sequence is a group of sonnets thematically unified to create a long work, although generally ,unlike the stanza each sonnet so connected can also be read as a meaningful unit. Sonnet sequence was a very popular genre during Renaissance,following the pattern of Petrach from the begining to end .An exception is Edmund Spensers Amoretti, where the wooing is successful ,and the sequence ends with an Epithalamion,a marriage song. Amoretti is a sonnet sequence written by Edmund Spenser in the 16th century. The sequence describes his courtship and eventual marriage to Elizabeth Boyle. Amoretti was published in 1595 in london by William Pononsonby. The volume included the sequence of 89 sonnets , along with a series of short poems called Anacreontics and Epithalamion.
Amoretti LXXV : One Day I Wrote Her Name One day I wrote her name upon the strand But came the waves and washed it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide ,and made my pains his prey. Vain man, said she , that dost in vain assay, A mortal thing so to immortalize ; For I myself shall like to this decay , And eke my name be wiped out likewise. Not so, (quod I) let baser things devise To die in dust , but you shall live by fame : My verse your vertues rare shall eternize, And in the heavens write your glorious name: Where whenas death shall all the world Subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew.
Amoretti LXXV (THEME) Sonnet 75 is a sonnet about the power of poetry itself.The poem s speaker wants his beloved to be remembered forever, even as she argues that such notions are vain and pointless; she is a human being ,and as such her name and memory will one day disappear along with her mortal body .The poet says Where whenas death shall all the world Subdue, Our love shall live,and later life renew. particularluy, Sonnet 75 depicts the lyrical voice attempts to make his loved one immortal .A scene is described in which the lyrical voice has a coversation with his loved one about this particular topic .
Structure and form Sonnet 75 by Edmund Spenser is a traditional Spenserian Sonnet , foremed by three interlocked quatrains and a couplet .It has an ABAB BCBC CDCD EE rhyme scheme and it is written in iambic pentametre .Spensers name is tied to this pattern as Shakespeare is tied to the structure he made famous with in his sonnets.
Literary Devices Spenser makes use of several literary devices in Sonnet 75 .These include but are not limited to aliteration , an extended metaphor, and enjambment . The latter is a common formal device that occurs when a poet cuts off a line before its natural stopping point .For example , the transition between lines nine and ALITERATION is another interesting device , one that is involved with repetition.Forexample , pains and prey in the fourth line and verse virtues in line eleven . In the first lines of the poem , the speaker introduces an extended METAPHOR that uses image of wave washing away his writing on the beach . It is used to represent the way the speaker labours over his love but is cntinually rebuffed .
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