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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He wanted to tell her he loved her.
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He was making a sandcastle.
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He wanted to immortalize his love.
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He wanted to destroy his love.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The speaker writes his beloved’s name on the seashore because he wants to sing her praises and have her be remembered, but the waves come wash away his efforts. He repeats this process, but to no avail: the tide comes back and again erases his work.
Detailed explanation-2: -The poem begins by setting the scene: the speaker (the “I") of the poem is at the strand with his gal pal. The strand, in case you are not up on Spenser’s lingo, is another name for the shore-you know, the sandy part of the beach.
Detailed explanation-3: -The speakers thinks that she will immortalize their love by allowing future generations to read about it. The speakers thinks that his poem will immortalize their love by allowing future generations to read about it.
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).
Detailed explanation-5: -’Sonnet 75’ by Edmund Spenser is a traditional love sonnet that depicts a speaker’s attempts to make his true love immortal. Throughout the poem, the speaker describes writing his lover’s name in the sand, only to watch it be washed away by the tide.