“Sonnet 75″ “One day I wrote her name upon the strand‚ Again I wrote 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 (quoth 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 when
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merchant’s company. When Edmund came of age he entered the University of Cambridge as a "sizar" (a student who paid less for his education than others and had to wait on (to serve) the wealthier students at mealtimes). Spenser was learned in Hebrew‚ Greek‚ Latin and French. His generation was one of the first to study also their mother tongue seriously. While at college‚ he acted in the tragedies of the ancient masters and this inspired him to write poetry. Spenser began his literary work at
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a theatre‚ prepared to watch Edmund Spenser perform. Spenser is the most hilarious comedian of the 21st century. Everyone loves him. His shows are always sold out. You know you’re going to laugh until your sides hurt and you can’t breathe. Spenser walks out on stage‚ somber and serious. He starts his act: Are you laughing yet? Or are you confused? Are you trying to figure out what in the world is happening? Are you trying to figure out what language Spenser is speaking? What’s the difference
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impossible to achieve‚ it is in fact a very possible thing through literature. In Sonnet 75 by Edmund Spenser‚ the speaker tells a brief tale about himself and his mistress‚ debating about mortality one day at the beach. In Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare‚ the persona is speaking to his lover via the poem; he compliments him and states that his beauty will live on forever through this poem. Sonnet 75 by Spenser and Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare are similar due to the fact that they both incorporate the idea
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dy in dust‚ but you shall live by fame: My verse your vertues rare shall eternize‚ And in the heavens wryte your glorious name. Where whenas death shall all the world subdew‚ Our love shall live‚ and later life renew." By Edmund Spencer The poem by Edmund Spenser is a poem of true love. What this poem is basically trying to describe is that when you love someone or something that love does not have to end. Love is eternal and in this case it will last into what the author believes to be
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Ashley-Anna Aboreden AP English Language and Composition Teacher: Dr. Stobaugh September 23‚ 2014 The Theme in Edmund Spenser’s "Sonnet 26" "So every sweet with sour is tempered still‚ / That maketh it be coveted the more." (Spenser‚ "Sonnet 26"‚ lines 11-12). In Edmund Spenser’s "Sonnet 26"‚ Spenser emphasized the notion that life is made sweeter by some kind of pain or obstacle. He recorded several beautiful flowers to evidence this notion. He then used this list of flowers to express that
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Marriage Edmund Spenser’s “Sonnet 75” is an epithalamium regarding the mortality of marriage. The speaker acts upon his lust‚ flattering his lover with bribery and continuously asking her to marry him. The poem implies marriage in the third line‚ with the word “hand‚” because it is a synecdoche to marriage. His lover responds with the statement “taking a mortal thing [marriage] so to immortalize [her name]” is senseless‚ because “[her] name [will] be wiped out likewise” (Spenser 6-8). Spenser’s
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Sonnet 1 by Edmund Spenser and Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare differ greatly in form‚ tone‚ content‚ meaning‚ and persona. Shakespeare begins with a rather unflattering attribute; "My mistress’ are nothing like the sun" while Spenser‚ praises his love by wishing he were a book she was reading. Sonnet 1 by Spenser follows a rhyme scheme of his own devising (ababbcbccdcdee) that combines interwoven thoughts. In this sonnet he praises his wife’s beauty and attempts to flatter her through conveying
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In Shakespeare’s sonnet 18‚ Edmund Spenser’s sonnet 75 and Elizabeth Barret Browning’s sonnet 43 a key idea encompassed through all of them is the theme of love‚ which is portrayed using an array of language features most commonly figurative language. Shakespeare uses Figurative language to help himself portray the theme of love in sonnet 18 . "Shall I compare thee to a summers day?" at the start of the sonnet he asks a rhetorical question too himself if he is able to compare the beauty of
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The Spenserian Sonnet was named for Edmund Spenser 1552-1599‚ a 16th century English Poet. The Spenserian Sonnet inherited the tradition of the declamatory couplet of Wyatt / Surrey although Spenser used Sicilian quatrains to develop a metaphor‚ conflict‚ idea or question logically‚ with the declamatory couplet resolving it. Beyond the prerequisite for all sonnets‚ the defining features of the Spenserian Sonnet are: a quatorzain made up of 3 Sicilian quatrains (4 lines alternating rhyme) and
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