unattainable love
Within the sonnets written by Spenser and Wyatt, there is something called unattainable love. The poet Petrarch first used this in one of his sonnets. Unattainable love is a love that a person cannot have for a particular reason. This love is very strong between the two people, yet they cannot be with each other because of this particular reason. In Edmund Spenser's "Sonnet 75" and Sir Thomas Wyatt's "Farewell Love", unattainable love can be seen. In this essay, unattainable love will be compared between these two poems, showing how it is used and when it is used. In "Sonnet 75" by Edmund Spenser, we can see this literary device being used throughout the poem. This sonnet is about a person who has just lost his loved one. His loved one had died, we don't know how but we know that she isn't alive and well. This is the reason that these two loved ones are apart and thus his love is unattainable. This poem was written to immortalize his loved one as he saw her. In the first part of the poem, he states,"One day I wrote her name upon the strand,But came the waves and washed it away;Again I wrote it with a second hand,But came the tide, and made my pains his prey."(Sonnet 75, Line 1-4).This shows how he really felt about
Where whenas death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew. He was hurting inside and he needed a way to show the world how much he really loved her, thus writing her name on the sand. Sonnet 75 by Edmund SpenserOne day I wrote her name upon the strand,But came the waves and washed it away;Again I wrote it with a second hand,But came the tide, an made my pains his prey. This shows that he did, at one time or another, love this girl. AppendixFarewell Love by Thomas WyattFarewell Love and all thy laws for ever,Thy bated hookes shall tangill me no more;Senec and Plato call me from thy lore,To perfaict welth my wit for to endever. He says, "My verse your virtues rare shall eternize, And in the heavens write your glorious name. In this quotation, we can see the unattainable love come into play. He seems content that his love is leaving him as he will no longer be hooked by her, or in other words, be engrossed in her all day, everyday. This shows that the speaker knows that he cannot have his love thus he tells her to leave him alone, saying that he doesn't care that she is leaving him. In blynde error when I did persever,Thy sherpe repulse that pricketh ay so soreHath taught me to sett in tryfels no storeAnd scape fourth syns libertie is lever. He says, "Therefore farewell, goo trouble yonger hertes And in me clayme no more authoritie; With idill yeuth goo use thy propertie And theron spend thy many brittil dertes. These two poems, "Sonnet 75" by Edmund Spenser and "Farewell Love" by Thomas Wyatt, both make use of unattainable love. The speaker immortalizes his love as a person who plays and leads the guy on while in the other poem, "sonnet 75", the poet immortalizes his love as a kind and loving woman. The speaker cannot have his love because of one reason or another. For hitherto though I have lost all my tyme Me lusteth no lenger rotten boughs to clymbe.
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