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Sonnet 67
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Summary
Sir Edmund Spenser
The literal translation of the poem is a story about a huntsman that is chasing a deer he wants, but the deer is running from him. He stops to relax, so the deer stopped running away. He finally captured the deer. Figuratively, Spenser is talking about a man chasing after a woman he wants, but she keeps running away from him. When he stops chasing her, she stops running and he was able to trick her into going to him.
Spenser worked for courtiers Robert Dudley and Arthur Lord Grey, deputy of Ireland. It is in Ireland that Spenser wrote most of his brillant work. The Faerie Queene, is a multi-part epic poem which glorifies England and its language. The poem made Queen Elizabeth I happy, so she praised him for his work.
Reading of the Poem
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/amoretti-lxvii-like-as-a-huntsman/
Sonnet #1
By: Kim Weot
We have been friends since I can remember
I was blessed that there was more between us
I didn’t know, you told me in December
There was going to be a lot to work out
You are away, but it doesn’t matter
You are my best friend, and partner in crime
Such a sweetheart, and you always flatter
Think of you whenever I hear that rhyme
If you’re reading this I hope it’s a clue
I’m not good at rhyming, but it’ll do
I don’t know what I would do without you.
Roses are red; your charming eyes are blue.
I told you I was writing a sonnet
You just never knew it was about you.
Literary Devices and Themes
Sonnet 67
Analysis
Rhyme Scheme and Metaphors are seen repetitively throughout the poem. Spenser The poem shows how the hunter aka the man wants the woman in his life.
Love and Want are two themes I see frequently in this sonnet. The poem as a whole is about the man Wanting the deer and wanting the woman as his wife. Love is a theme in this poem because it shows that the man wants this woman as his wife so bad that he is willing to chase her and capture her.
Sonnet 67 "Like as a huntsman..."
Sir Edmund Spenser
Like as a huntsman after weary chase,
Seeing the game from him escap'd away,
Sits down to rest him in some shady place,
With panting hounds beguiled of their prey:
So after long pursuit and vain assay,
When I all weary had the chase forsook,
The gentle deer return'd the self-same way,
Thinking to quench her thirst at the next brook.
There she beholding me with milder look,
Sought not to fly, but fearless still did bide:
Till I in hand her yet half trembling took,
And with her own goodwill her firmly tied.
Strange thing, me seem'd, to see a beast so wild,
So goodly won, with her own will beguil'd.
This sonnet is written in iambic pentameter, as well as the rest of Spenser's sonnets. With the pattern of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. He starts the poem off with a simile saying "like a huntsman." Spenser plays on the pun deare/deer in line seven, saying that his dear is as elusive as the deer he is hunting in the woods. He also makes sure to put "gentle" in front of "deare" as a way of making her sound meeker and more like the wife he wants.
By: Kim Weot