From the Amoretti
By
Edmund Spencer
‘Amoretti’ is
a sonnet written by Spencer in 16th century. The meaning of the word
‘Amoretti’ is ‘little love poems’. This poem is part of the 89 sonnets of
Faerie Queen and is 75th sonnet about love and desire. Spencer wrote as
a part of courtship of his second
wife Elizabeth Boyle.
Spencer has used
sonnets in this poem, in beginning lines he wrote about efforts that he done to
mortalize his beloved’s name by writing it on the sand near the seashore but
waves came and vanish it like his enemy. He tried a ot but waves comes again as
he said ,
“But the tide came and made my pains
his prey”
By this line we can understand how the waves being enemy of poet. He has fear that as nature wiped out his beloved’s name may be his name
wiped out by nature.
At end, he said
she was die in dust but live in his memory
and in the world y fame. This suggest the in love , aggressive pursuit is not only successful techniques.
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