FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
EDMUND SPENSER
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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I will someday die and be gone like my name.
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I will someday move and be gone like my name.
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I will someday change and be gone like my name.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -For I myself shall like to this decay, And eke my name be wiped out likewise.” These lines are the continuation of the beloved’s speech. She says that she, too, will decay and disappear, just as her name has disappeared from the beach. She, too, will be “wiped out."
Detailed explanation-2: -“Sonnet 75” is a poem about the power of poetry itself. The poem’s speaker wants his beloved to be remembered forever, even as she argues that such notions are vain and pointless; she’s a human being, and as such her name and memory will one day disappear along with her mortal body.
Detailed explanation-3: -Our love shall live, and later life renew. The final couplet of Sonnet 75 summarizes the message of the poem. According to the lyrical voice, even if everything comes to an end (“Where whenas death shall all the world subdue”), their love will survive (“Out love shall live, and later life renew”).
Detailed explanation-4: -In summary, Spenser tells us that he wrote his beloved’s name on the beach one day, but the waves came in and washed the name away. He wrote his beloved’s name out a second time, but again the tide came in and obliterated it, as if deliberately targeting the poet’s efforts (’pains’) with its destructive waves.