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Edmund Spenser's Sonnet 67
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Edmund Spenser's Sonnet 67
By: Rebeka Walker
Giana Marks
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Arianna Terrazano
Literary devices
Main Idea of The Sonnet.
The literary devices used in this sonnet are metaphors and rhyme scheme.
Sonnet 67
This sonnet has two levels to it, it has a figurative and a literal. The literal is that the tired huntsman is chasing after this deer he wants but after giving up and relaxing , the deer stopped running away, and the huntsman was able to win what he was hunting after this whole time. On the figurative level this sonnet tells the tale of a guy chasing after a girl he would like to court but she keeps running from him, but when he sits for a minute and just chills out the girl he likes stops and he is able to beguile her.
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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 for sook,
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.
Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser published his first important work, The Shepheardes Calender circa 1580. He also worked for courtiers Robert Dudley and Arthur Lord Grey, deputy of Ireland. It is in Ireland that Spenser wrote most of his masterwork, The Faerie Queene, a multi-part epic poem which glorifies England and its language. The poem pleased Queen Elizabeth I, who gave Spenser a small pension for life.
Background information
Sonnet 67 was just one of the 85 Sonnets that Edmund wrote about his courtship of Elizabeth Boyle , the collection was called Amoretti (Italian meaning a representation of cupid in a work of art.) Written on March 30th, 1594.