FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
EDMUND SPENSER
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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the closer she draws near to him
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the colder she becomes
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the more her ice melts
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the further she runs from him
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Detailed explanation-1: -What more miraculous thing may be told, That fire, which all things melts, should harden ice, And ice, which is congeal’d with senseless cold, Should kindle fire by wonderful device?
Detailed explanation-2: -What is the “miraculous thing” in Spenser’s Sonnet 30? The fact that the hotter his desire is for the lady the colder she becomes.
Detailed explanation-3: -"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-4: -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.