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Edmund Spenser Sonnet 35
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Edmund Spenser
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When Spencer was writing "Amoretti," he was trying to woo his soon to be wife. He was trying to persuade her to see that he was the one to marry. The first few sonnets including "Sonnet 35" are about him conveying his emotions about her beauty and his feelings that she makes him feel.
Edmund Spenser's
Sonnet 35:
My hungry eyes, through greedy covetise
Still to behold the object of their pain,
With no contentment can themselves suffice;
But, having, pine; and, having not, complain.
For, lacking it, they cannot life sustain; 5
And, having it, they gaze on it the more;
In their amazement like Narcissus vain,
Whose eyes him starv’d: so plenty makes me poor.
Yet are mine eyes so filled with the store
Of that fair sight, that nothing else they brook, 10
But loathe the things which they did like before,
And can no more endure on them to look.
All this world’s glory seemeth vain to me,
And all their shows but shadows, saving she.
Translated-ish:
Pretty much he's saying that his eyes are filled with the desire to look at the very thing that causes them pain (the woman he loves) and the only time he's ever happy is whenever he's looking at her; He doesn't want to look away.
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