ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -In this poem, the speaker describes how he loves his beloved with fiery passion even as she meets his desire with cold disinterest. The speaker struggles to understand the intensity of his love, which only grows stronger the more his beloved resists.

Detailed explanation-2: -In “Sonnet 30, ” the speaker rehashes all the injuries and disappointments of life: dead friends, lost pleasures, squandered opportunities. For the speaker, neither memory nor time itself diminishes the pain of these losses: just to think about them brings them back in their full power and difficulty.

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: -Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti, first published in 1595, is a sonnet cycle, which describes the poet’s love for, courtship of, and eventual marriage to Elizabeth Boyle. The series of sonnet are unique in that they do not end with love being unrequited, but rather with the resolution of the poet’s love in marriage.

Detailed explanation-5: -Sonnet 30 is about the love of a man referring to Spenser and the love for a woman to Elizabeth Boyle. This poem is an epithalamium that celebrates the wedding of Edmund Spenser with Elizabeth Boyle.