Compare And Contrast My Love Is Like To Ice And I To Fire

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Poetry introduced to the world sonnets that consists of fourteen lines in a stanza. Love is one of the most popular themes that most people would think of when it comes to sonnets. Love is an emotion that people can relate to because everyone has a different opinion and experience when it comes to love. Edmund Spenser’s sonnets “Amoretti LXXV One Day I Wrote Her Name” and “Amoretti and Epithalamion XXX My Love is like to ice, and I to fire” are the two sonnets that capture my attention. Both sonnets are a form of the Spenserian sonnets due to the different rhythm schemes compare to the other sonnets. Both sonnets are written in modern English, where the sonnets are easier to understand than Shakespearean sonnets. In sonnet LXXV, the author
He is comparing his love to fire and his lover’ heart to ice using simile. There is no clear setting in this sonnet in term of place and time but we can see an image of a man try to win the heart of a woman. Whenever the author try to win her affection, her heart gets colder every time he tries. She rejects the author many times and he will not give up. This can be seen as a man who try to win the woman of his dream in romantic ways or can be seen as a man stalking the woman that he likes and try to win her heart. Since the woman in sonnet XXX don’t want the author’ love, it can portray as she is just a cold person or she is really not into the author for different
In sonnet LXXV, the word “strand “ in line one rhyme with ” hand” and the word “away” in line two rhyme with “prey” . In sonnet XXX, the word “fire” in line one rhyme with “ desire” in line three and the word “entreat”. This is the unique style that Edmund Spenser uses and it appears in every sonnet that he has written. In terms of language, both are written with very few broken English and it is easier to analyze compared to Shakespearean sonnets. Some examples are words such as eek, vain, dost in Sonnet LXXV. It appears randomly in the sonnet LXXV and does not really fit in the lines because it throws readers off track a bit. The words make sense in the the lines but it does not flow with the sentence

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