Poem: Amoretti

AMORETTI

"AMORETTI" is a sonnet cycle written by Edmund Spenser the poet's poet of English literature. This poem is one of Spenser's most famous sonnets. Spenser is regarded as Geoffrey Chaucer "The Father of English Literature" his beloved master. He is a Elizabethan era's poet.

He wrote love poem about permanence of the love and describes political and religious theme of the contemporary era. "Sonnet 75"  is taken from Spenser's poem collection "AMORETTI".

The name AMORETTI itself suggests the meaning that...little notes or little couplets. This poem has been written in Spenser's famous rhyming scheme - ABABBBCBCC.

The poem is divided into three stanzas. In the first stanza, poet narrates his lover's name on the sand. Though the very next time, the waves swallow them up and the lattes vanish away. poet says that...

"Again I wrote it with a second hand."

This describes that the poet strives once more to leave his writing upon beach. Only to see it quickly disappear. This is poet's endless but futile effort to immortalize something that is mortal. At this time, very image of the poem - Lady's name transferred from each to heaven. Poet say that, Time is the destroyer of all things. But even so, the poet perseveres with determination to engrave his love on the walls of time itself.

She argued with the poet that it is mere waste of time and effort as love is mortal thing as the phrase , A  mortal thing is so to immortalize.

She will be 'washed away' just like her name, washed away by the tide and is vain for his as everyone in the world will eventually have to die as time and tide wait for none. She wanted him to know that his actions were only futile and that his actions there is nothing he could do to control the immortality of their love because immortality  itself does not exist.

The lover only meant for her partner to accept, the cruel and harsh realities of life that nothing can be last forever.

Through the third stanza  poet depicts that, he can make their love last forever despite mortality. He says that he can do this by using his verse. When people die that everyone will still have knowledge of their love because it will be eternal. As poet writes in the poem,...

"My verse your virtues rare shall eternise."

He proved his points by immortalizing his love towards his beloved through his words and writing elements. Just as he promised to use his verse as a tool to immortalize her virtue for as long as it will be.

It shows a contrast between their immortal love and other things that will die with PASSAGE OF TIME. The word - "Death" shows how  it will brutally destroys all other things except for their love which will be renewed by the presence of the verse. Even though death might separate them for the time being, he believes in life after death and that the love he had for his lover could never apart.

Thus... We can say that, this sonnet embraces the theme of the poem that their love will not fade away like other things on the earth. 
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