FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
EDMUND SPENSER
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confused at the nature of love
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confused at the rejection of love
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confused at the hardness of love
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -"My Love is like to ice, and I to fire, ” also known as “Amoretti XXX, ” is number 30 in Edmund Spenser’s 1595 sonnet sequence about his courtship and marriage to Elizabeth Boyle. In this poem, the speaker describes how he loves his beloved with fiery passion even as she meets his desire with cold disinterest.
Detailed explanation-2: -Edmund Spenser Similes play a big role in Sonnet 30 because throughout the sonnet, his love is being compared to fire, and her love to ice. “Such is the power of love in a gentle mind, That can alter all the course of kind.” The sonnet follows a ABAB, BCBC, CDCD rhyme scheme and contains a couplet at the end.
Detailed explanation-3: -The metaphor lies in comparing the poet’s loving heart as “fire” and his lover’s not-so-loving heart as cold or “ice”. He makes the concept well understood that love has the ability to change the way a person thinks or his logical order.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the final two lines of ‘Sonnet 30’ the speaker transitions into the turn, or volta. This is seen through a direct address to a “dear friend, ” the Fair Youth. Whenever he is as depressed as he described in the previous lines, he thinks of the youth, and his losses are restored and his “sorrows end”.