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by Edmund Spenser, Read with a Purpose Build Background, Read to learn why the speaker thinks This sonnet was part of a larger group of sonnets known as the Amoretti (“little, love can bend the rules of nature. love poems”), published in 1595. Spenser wrote these sonnets to his wife, Elizabeth., ‘The poems are about their courtship., , , , , , a ae ay, SONNET 30, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , My love is like to ice, and I to fire;, , How comes it then that this her cold so great, Is not dissolved through my so hot desire,, , But harder grows the more her entreat?, Or how comes it that my exceeding heat, , Is not delayed? by her heart frozen cold, 6. delayed: tempered., , But that I burn much more in boiling sweat,, , And feel my flames augmented manifold?” 8, augmented manifold:, What more miraculous thing may be told increased in many ways., ‘That fire which all thing melts, should harden ice,, , And ice which is congealed? with senseless cold, 11. congealed: thickened., Should kindle fire by wonderful device?° 12, device: trick., , Such is the power of love in gentle mind,, , ‘That it can alter all the course ofkind.® @ 14. kind: nature,, , Speaker Why do you think the speaker asks direct, questions of the reader?, , © EREEEINT Drawing inferences Note the turn, or shift in thought,, inthe final couplet. Based on this shift, what can you infer about the poet's message?, , Sonnet 30 273

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re ‘cud, , SONNET 7, , by Edmund Spenser, , Read with a Purpose Build Background, , Read to discover what happens in the In this sonnet, Spenser uses the image of the sea and its eternal tides to, , exchange between the speaker and the | emphasize the cydical nature of life and the immortality brought by his, poetry., , One day I wrote her name upon the strand,”, But came the waves and washéd it away;, , 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 eke® my name be wipéd out likewise” @, “Not so,” quod? J, “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” @, , © LEER Drawing inferences What does “second hand” mean?, (© LENIN speaker: Why do you think Spenser uses two voices in, this poem?, , (© REET Drawing inferences Inthe poem, the male speaker, ‘wants to immortalize his love, Why does he think she is worthy of fame?, , , , , , , , 274 Unit 2+ Collection 3