Methodology Essay
Mythical elements in English Poetry
Submitted to teacher Katrina Maroun
Ola Deeb, ID 305754582
In this essay I intend to discuss similarities and differences between Spenser's and Ovid's poems according to their structure, theme, tone and poetic devices.
Edmund Spenser, Amoretti sonnet (75): One day I wrote her name
This poem is said to have been written on Spenser's love affair and eventual marriage to Elizabeth Boyle, his second wife. In Sonnet (75), the poet centers on the immortality of spiritual love and the temporarily of physical love.
Structure:
The poem presents a dialogue between Spenser and his lady. Spenser's poem is a sonnet, consists of 14 lines, divided into three quatrains and a couplet and each quatrain considers as one stanza and the last two lines as a couplet.
Theme:
The theme of the poem is love and immortality. Spenser immortalizes himself as a poet celebrates his love to his beloved, defies nature and immortalizes their love and their life through poetry.
Stanza (3) "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."
Spenser tells his beloved that although there is a physical\temporal part to her nature; his verse will make her immortal. The poet summarizes the theme in the final couplet although things may perish, the spiritual nature of their love will transcend death and even grow and his beloved will live by fame from writing her name through poetry.
Tone:
The tone of Spenser in his sonnet is challenging and defying, his beloved tone is critical. Spenser challenges nature while writing her name several times on the shore. However he is defying not only nature but also his beloved. Stanza (2), In this quatrain the poem states that the poet's lover did not have the confidence in his effort of trying to immortalize his love towards her. She argued it a mere waste of time and effort as love is a mortal thing as
Submitted to teacher Katrina Maroun
Ola Deeb, ID 305754582
In this essay I intend to discuss similarities and differences between Spenser's and Ovid's poems according to their structure, theme, tone and poetic devices.
Edmund Spenser, Amoretti sonnet (75): One day I wrote her name
This poem is said to have been written on Spenser's love affair and eventual marriage to Elizabeth Boyle, his second wife. In Sonnet (75), the poet centers on the immortality of spiritual love and the temporarily of physical love.
Structure:
The poem presents a dialogue between Spenser and his lady. Spenser's poem is a sonnet, consists of 14 lines, divided into three quatrains and a couplet and each quatrain considers as one stanza and the last two lines as a couplet.
Theme:
The theme of the poem is love and immortality. Spenser immortalizes himself as a poet celebrates his love to his beloved, defies nature and immortalizes their love and their life through poetry.
Stanza (3) "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."
Spenser tells his beloved that although there is a physical\temporal part to her nature; his verse will make her immortal. The poet summarizes the theme in the final couplet although things may perish, the spiritual nature of their love will transcend death and even grow and his beloved will live by fame from writing her name through poetry.
Tone:
The tone of Spenser in his sonnet is challenging and defying, his beloved tone is critical. Spenser challenges nature while writing her name several times on the shore. However he is defying not only nature but also his beloved. Stanza (2), In this quatrain the poem states that the poet's lover did not have the confidence in his effort of trying to immortalize his love towards her. She argued it a mere waste of time and effort as love is a mortal thing as