ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

EDMUND SPENSER

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
To which of these senses does the imagery most clearly appeal in “Sonnet 30”?
A
Sight and touch
B
Sight and sound
C
Touch and smell
D
Touch and sound
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -What view do both “Sonnet 30” and “Sonnet 75” present about the love between the speaker and his beloved? The speaker is passionate even when his beloved is not. The speaker is loyal even when his beloved is fickle.

Detailed explanation-2: -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”.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Power of Love The speaker of “Sonnet 30” spends most of the poem in despair: obsessively meditating on past disappointments, regrets, and sorrows. The speaker can’t find any relief: even the passage of time doesn’t heal these wounds.

Detailed explanation-4: -Shakespeare uses Sonnet 18 to praise his beloved’s beauty and describe all the ways in which their beauty is preferable to a summer day. The stability of love and its power to immortalize someone is the overarching theme of this poem.

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