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    Sonnet 79 Analysis

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    Poetry Analysis Essay Sonnet 79 by Edmund Spenser is organized into three quatrains and a couplet. In this poem Spenser addresses his wife and tells how he does not pay close attention to outward appearances‚ but greatly admires a woman’s internal beauty. In the first quatrain Spenser starts by saying that men call the women beautiful and she herself knows it is true also. Then he states that he believes the truly beautiful are the ones with "gentle wit" and "virtuous mind." In the next quatrain

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    Pastoral Poems and Sonnets RL 2 Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text‚ including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text. RL 5 Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact. Sonnet 30 Sonnet 75 Poetry by Edmund Spenser Meet the Author

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    SONNET 34” by Edmund Spenser Sonnet 34‚ which is included in a collection of poems known as “Amoretti” by Edmund Spenser‚ was published in 1595. Throughout this poem the speaker expresses feelings of depression and anguish because of the loss of his beloved. However‚ he is not pessimistic at all since he knows that his love for her will bring him joy once more. This poem is a Spenserian sonnet which is composed of three quatrains and a final couplet. The rhyme pattern is abab bcbc cdcd ee written

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    the tradition of the poet Petrarch‚ whose sonnets dealt with a wooing male lover. Petrarch arranged his sonnets into ‘sonnet consequences’ or ‘sonnet cycles’‚ in which series of sonnets were linked together by a common theme based on the various aspects of the lover’s relationship. Spencer also arranged his ‘Amoretti’ in ‘sonnet sequences’. Spencer himself evolved his own structure for the English sonnet which has come to be known as the Spenserian sonnet. It had the same three quatrains but with

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    Edmund Spenser Sonnet 30

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    Sonnet 30 by Edmund Spenser figurative devices theme My love is like to ice‚ and I to fire: simile comparing his love for her to fire‚ hers for him to ice How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire‚ But harder grows the more I her entreat? Rhetorical question relating to her increasing coldness towards him the more he desires her Or how comes it that my exceeding heat Is not

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    Life of Edmund Spenser

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    SPEN ser 1552-1599 I. Introduction Spenser‚ Edmund (1552?-1599)‚ great English poet‚ who bridged the medieval and Elizabethan periods‚ and who is most famous for his long allegorical romance‚ The Faerie Queene. II. Life and Works Spenser was born in London‚ where he attended the Merchant Tailor’s School. He then went on to Pembroke College‚ University of Cambridge‚ where he took a degree in 1576. In 1579 he entered the service of the English courtier Robert Dudley‚ earl of Leicester‚ and

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    Wyatt and Spenser

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    welcomes the chase. The poets’ ideas of wildness and tameness are distinctly addressed and quite the contrary. Wyatt thinks that someone may seem tame‚ but hard to get control of later as expressed in line 14 of the poem "Whoso List to Hunt". Spenser thinks it’s strange that someone is wild in the beginning and hard to get‚ but later won over easily. The differences in the poet’s view of love in each of the poems suggest that things be not always as they seem. One can not predict the outcome

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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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    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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    (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 the age of seventeen. Once a fellow-student introduced him to the famous Sir Philip Sidney‚ who encouraged

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