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Saturday, 26 August 2017

From the Amoretti sonnet by Edmund Spenser


                                               

                     "From the Amoretti" sonnet is written by Edmund Spenser. Who was an English poet and he was Known for his well written poem 'Faerie Queene". This sonnet was written in 16th century which included 89 sonnets. 

Poem: 

One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washed it away:
Again I write it with a second hand,
But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.
Vain man, said she, that doest in vain assay,
A mortal thing so to immortalize,
For I myself shall like to this decay,
And eek 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 virtues 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. 

Analysis: 

              In the first few line of the poem the poet talks about the affects that he took to mortalise name of his beloved. One day he started writing his beloveds name upon the strand but waves became his enemy  and as he write name of his beloved upon the strand, it washed away his beloved name. Still after the first filer he did not give up and again try write her name but once again the tide come and wash did away this pain has very well expressed in the line by the poet which is......

                          But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. 
                           
                     
                            Vain man, said she, that doest in vain assay,
                  A mortal thing so to immortalize,
                  For I myself shall like to this decay,
                 And eek my name be wiped out likewise. 
      
         In the next lines the poet talks about effects to mortalise name of his beloved may be his beloved watching him from some were and she expresses her sorrow or her lover's filer. The poet an expresses his feeling because he is scad now as the way nature destroyed out his beloved name. His fear is that her name also can be "wiped out likewise".
               
         In the last few lines of the poem the poet expresses his fear and he still will continue to remembered name of his beloved. he consoled his beloved by saying that she may 'died in dust' but she will live by fame. She would be in the memory by her virtues and she would live in verse even after of the death. When death will sub due entire world there love shall live. This how the poet describers the unstoppable effects a lover to mortalise name of his beloved.     
            

 

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