"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 n...