Poetry Analysis

Sonnet 75

After the middle ages sonnets became very popular to poets. They usually where written by men expressing there love for an unattainable women. After many decades the sonnet written by Edmund Spenser "Sonnet 75" is still very popular it shows the many different traits that all sonnets have. The peace of work that he did was very well written and shows what he truly felt for this women.

The sonnets that where written in the Elizabethan age all have a lot of things in common. They each have the some kinds of literary terms and they all seam to be about the love a man feels for a women. Most of the well known sonnets are still around today and they seem to still get everybody’s attention. The sonnet is a love poem that has a rhyme scheme of ABAB BCBC CDCD EE. . This is the rhyme scheme that most of the sonnets written during this time has. I feel that this was a great choice to have the rhyme scheme this way because the first part is linked to the second part and the second part is linked to the third part this give the poem the balance that it need and make the sonnet flow better. He make the sonnet better by using many different types of literary terms such as form, rhyme, personification, and alliteration. Using these made the sonnet easier to read and allowed the reader to be able to follow the flow of the poem and understand it better.

One of the many traits that this sonnet shows is the many different images that it gives. The first image that appears is the man writing the women’s name in the sand. It shows in your minds eye a man writing out a name while he was sitting on a beach. The poem also describes a beach and it is very easy to see when you think about it. Another trait that it shows is symbolism. The ocean in the sonnet symbolizes eternity. The ocean seams to go on forever so this is a perfect symbol for it. Another symbol is the waves messing up the name that he wrote on the sand. This symbolizes that his love for her will go on forever and that nothing can change that.

Throughout the poem, Spencer uses alliteration to create sounds that help the imagery in his poem. In the second line of his poem, Spencer uses alliteration when he says "waves and washed it away". The repetition of the "w" sound creates a sound similar to the actual washing of waves. Later in the poem, Spencer writes, "my pains his pray" where the repetition of the "p" sound, which is a sound that gives the felling about the hard time the person is feeling. Spencer uses alliteration to tie in the words and phrases he uses to help connect the poem with the imagery.

One of the things that I liked in this poem was the way that he used his words. He really got me to want to read his poem he used the literary terms well and he use them to catch the attention of many different people he worked the problem that he had as the man that could not get the women of his dreams. His poem is still is looked at today and the different things that he has said make it feel that it was you in the poem. "Sonnet 75" is a successful Elizabethan sonnet with a view of love, but Spencer takes the words he used a step further by giving us a lot of different literary techniques that work well with the story and imagery of his sonnet. His skillful use of form, rhyme, personification, and alliteration all contribute to the construction of this sonnet. By creating "Sonnet 75", Spenser immortalized love That has been shown by many and well always be shown by both men and women for a log time to come.