FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
EDMUND SPENSER
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The speakers thinks that he will immortalize their love by allowing future generations to read about it.
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The speakers thinks that she will immortalize their love by allowing future generations to read about it.
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The speakers thinks that his poem will immortalize their love by allowing future generations to read about it.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -“Sonnet 75” is a poem about the power of poetry itself. 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: -Why does the speaker in Sonnet 75 tell his beloved that their “love shall live"? The speakers thinks that he will immortalize their love by allowing future generations to read about it. The speakers thinks that she will immortalize their love by allowing future generations to read about it.
Detailed explanation-3: -Why do you think the speaker in “Sonnet 75” wants to immortalize his love? Explain your thinking. His love is so intense that he wishes it to be made meaningful to the rest of the world. If his love fades away, did his love even matter in the first place?
Detailed explanation-4: -Why does the speaker say that his beloved’s name, as well as their love, will last forever? Because he has written about them in his poetry.
Detailed explanation-5: -“Where, when as death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew.” The speaker then professes that immortality is in the offing for himself as well as his beloved: their “love shall live.” And it will be renewed in the future every time a reader encounters the speaker’s poems.