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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The speaker’s beachhouse
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On board a ship
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Along the beach
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in heaven
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.
Detailed explanation-4: -He writes her name in the sand, but a wave comes and washes it away. He writes it again, but alas, a wave washes it away again (no big surprise there, really).