Analyses+of+other+Amoretti+Sonnets

SONNET 68: - In this sonnet, he continues to celebrate that - Brings in religion & God - Line 12: “With love may one another entertayne” = matrimony - Keeps talking about love - Celebration of love - Written on Easter Day, focuses on divine love.
 * o Only references human love in the couplet, when he addresses the love he shares with Elizabeth
 * o

SONNET 74: - There are three Elizabeths that make him happy: his mother, Queen Elizabeth, and his wife - 2nd year of his courtship with Elizabethan, or his relationship with her - - [] -
 * o Line 4: “guifts of body” = mother
 * o “fortune” = Queen Elizabeth
 * o “mind” = wife

SONNET 75: - Spenser is writing her name in the sand, but he sees the waves come in and wash it away, a couple of times. - Line 5: “Vayne man…tht doest in vaine assay” = he’s saying that she’s telling him he shouldn’t try to immortalize her - Line 8: “and eek my name bee wyped out lykewize” - She’s saying it’s not going to happen; she won’t be immortalized, she will die and her name will die as well. - line 9: “let baser things devize / To dy in dust, but you shall live by fame” = she’s too great to die - line 11: “my verse” = he’ll capture her in his poetry and immortalize her
 * o By writing the sonnets that he’s writing, he will immortalize her
 * o Ability of love to carry on after death
 * o Ties in with Sonnet 1, with the metaphor of writing poetry about her (back when he was chasing her)
 * § Shows the interrelationship of the sonnets w/in each sequence

SONNET 79: - First, he’s saying everyone thinks she’s pretty, but he sees her as beautiful uniquely - Line 14: “untymely fade” = everything else will die and fade away, but that her true beauty will last forever
 * o True beauty will last forever
 * o “True beauty comes from God, intelligence, and morality” = []

Back to Amoretti