"ONE DAY I WROTE HER NAME" POEM BY EDMUND SPENSER SHORT SUMMARY & CRISP CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE POEM
POEM
1: ONE DAY I WROTE HER NAME UPON STRAND
2: BUT CAME THE WAVES &WASHED IT AWAY
3: AGAIN I WROTE IT WITH A SECOND HAND
4: BUT CAME THE TIDES AND MADE MY PAINS HIS PREY
5: VAIN MAN SHE SAID THAT DOST VAIN ASSAY
6: A MORTAL THING SO TO IMMORTALIZE
7: FOR I MYSELF SHALL LIKE TO DECAY &EKE MY NAME BE WIPED OUT LIKEWISE
8: NOT SO" (QUOD I ) LET BASER THINGS DEVISE
9: TO DIE IN DUST BUT YOU SHALL LIVE BY FAME
10: MY VERSE YOUR VIRTUES RARE SHALL ETERNIZE
11: AND IN HEAVEN WRITE YOUR GLORIOUS NAME
12: WHERE WHENAS DEATH SHALL ALL THE WORLD SUBDUE
13: OUR LOVE SHALL LIVE &LATER LIFE RENEW
SHORT AND CRISP SUMMARY WITH ANALYSIS AND THEMES:
1: Edmund Spenser was one of the great writers of Elizabethan era , the era in which Shakespeare sufficed and prospered, Edmund's sonnets are one of the great literary pieces available to us ever since the elibethan era and on this sonnet an Hollywood song is also composed naming 'one day I wrote her name' this tells the austerity ,impact and impression of the sonnet in the contemporary times.
Coming back to the short and crisp analysis of the sonnet the first line in the stanza itself sufficed the key theme of the sonnet that is to IMMORTALIZE his beloved, this theme was of the most prevalent themse in the Elizabethan times. The first line in the stanza tells us how he one day was constantly trying to imprint his beloved name on the beach upon the strand then the waves from ocean hits up the strands and washes everything away , The next stanza advocates us about how he again tried to do so but again failed due to same reason.
Coming back to the short and crisp analysis of the sonnet the first line in the stanza itself sufficed the key theme of the sonnet that is to IMMORTALIZE his beloved, this theme was of the most prevalent themse in the Elizabethan times. The first line in the stanza tells us how he one day was constantly trying to imprint his beloved name on the beach upon the strand then the waves from ocean hits up the strands and washes everything away , The next stanza advocates us about how he again tried to do so but again failed due to same reason.
2: His beloved chatises him for his hubris and arrogance in making her IMMORTALIZE despite the fact that she is but a mortal woman like every other person on this planet even she came with a particular time which is assigned to her by God , she know that not even single part or her body be immortalized after death as she will decay and then his every effort will vain but for this particular fact she praises him ,his keen efforts just to IMMORTALIZE her name the name which will deteriorate after a particular time period.
3: With verses 9 and thereafter the poet ascribes us even after his constant efforts to IMMORTALIZE her name and getting failed in doing so. He uses another way a way which noone else could do so , he inscribed her name in his poetry and presented to us his beloved , in his verse he eternizes her virtues which are rare by doing he presents to us the virtual form of his beloved the beloved whom we remember till date in Edmund's verses and his last lines becomes true.
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