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Edmund Spenser's Amoretti Sonnet -79 Introduction: The theme of "Sonnet 79" by the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser is the true meaning of beauty. Spenser makes a distinction between eternal beauty, that which is given by God, and the more fleeting, earthly beauty that will one day fade away. In "Sonnet 79" the speaker gladly acknowledges the immense physical beauty of his lover. At the same time, however, he gently reminds his beloved that what makes her really beautiful is her intelligence. Text: Amoretti LXXIX: by Edmund Spenser Men call you fair, and you do credit it,  For that yourself ye daily such do see:  But the true fair, that is the gentle wit  And virtuous mind, is much more praised of me:  For all the rest, however fair it be,  Shall turn to naught and lose that glorious hue;  But only that is permanent and free  From frail corruption that doth flesh ensue.  That is true beauty; that doth argue you  To b...

Edmund Spenser's Amoretti - Sonnet 75 Introduction Sonnet 75   is part of  Amoretti , a sonnet cycle that describes Spenser’s courtship and marriage to Elizabeth Boyle.  Amoretti  was published in 1595 and it included 89 sonnets and a series of short poems called  Anacreontics and Epithalamion . The volume was titled “Amoretti and Epithalamion Written not long since by Edmunde  Spenser”.  Particularly,  Sonnet 75  depicts the lyrical voice’s attempts to make his loved one immortal. A scene is described in which the lyrical voice has a conversation with his loved one about this particular topic. This poem is a Spenserian sonnet, formed by three interlocked quatrains and a couplet. It has an ABAB BCBC CDCD EE rhyme scheme and it is written in iambic pentameter. The main themes in  Sonnet 75  are immortality and love. Text Amoretti LXXV One Day I Wrote her Name One day I wrote her name upon the strand,   ...

THE TYGER BY WILLIAM BLAME About the Text """""""""""""""""""""""""" "The Tyger" is a poem written by English poet William Blake published in 1794 as part of the Songs of Experience collection. It has been called "the most famous of his poems," It is one of Blake's most interpreted works. Main Text """"""""""""""" Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies. Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand, dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, & what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? & what dread feet? What the hammer? what the chain, In...