Wrote the Faerie Queene and Amoretti, his sonnet sequence, based on the courtship of his 2nd wife Elizabeth Boyle.

Three four-line stanzas (interlocking rhyme scheme) and a couplet; this sonnet is rhymed abab bcbc cdcd ee.

By: Spenser, tale of a man’s fruitless effort in his own romantic pursuit of happiness. Only when he ceases to avidly pursue the “deer” and rest does it return to him and willingly come into his arms. Italian sonnet w/ interlocking rhyme scheme. THEMES: nature, love, chase, courtship, true love needs to be given willingly1-8 (octet): pursuit of deer9-15 (seset): deer allowed him to come neardeer= Fiancée, Elizabeth Boyle, hunter=Spenser

By: Spenser, A person’s effort to write the mortal name of another in the sand.

His efforts are mocked as nature suggests that his death will allow for his verse to be written amongst the stars in a form most immortal.IMAGERY: name in sand: immorality and lovelove remembered forever unlike her name in sandTHEMES: Immortality, love, passage of time, love is mortal, immortal love is possible through verse.

about how beautiful his wife is but her most attractive quality is her personality, spirit and soul.fair- beautiful, pale, honest, true, virtuousTrue beauty comes from god.

little Cupids. Sonnets about Elizabeth Boyle created by Edmund Spenser

written by Sidney, in the Astropel & Stella series; Italian sonnet; speaking to the moon about how difficult it is to get a woman to love him. His love, Penelope does not love him back.

THEME: loveincludes an apostrophe

Sidney personifies sleep and begins to have a conversation with it. He is so depressed he just wants to sleep. He prays that Sleep will come and release him from his current misery. Only when he is asleep is he able to ease his suffering. He wonders what price he must pay in order to convince the god of Sleep to come to him, and he promises a “good tribute.” Smooth pillows, a comfortable bed, and a dark, quiet room are all that he desires, if only he can persuade Sleep to come. Finally, Sidney comes up with a way to convince Sleep to come to him. When he is asleep, he argues, the image of Stella will appear in his dreams, and Sleep will be able to watch.

This is the greatest tribute that he can pay. includes an apostrophe

Shakespeare. Starts with envy of other people who are happier, more popular; Outcast; feeling down (after the London theater closed due to the plague) but thinks of his love and he feels better, his love makes him feel wealth, he wouldn’t trade places with anyone. It’s talking about the object of the speakers affection.

By: Christopher Marlowe.Pastoral LiteratureShepard tries to persuade his love to live with him but he never speaks of marriage.THEMES: Love (in a rustic setting), time will stand still, eternal summer.

a literary work idealizing rural life, describes the simple life of country folk who live in a timeless, painless life in a world full of beauty, music and love

By: Sir Walter Raleighresponse to Marlowe’s Passionate Shepard, Anti- Pastoral. refutes all of the arguments (stanzas) of Pass. Shep.

Reality check for the Shepard, does not ignore the passage of time, acknowledges changing of seasons.

Shakespeare. the speaker attempts to compare his lover to a summer’s day, but shows that there can be no such comparison, since his/her timeless beauty far surpasses that of the fleeting, inconstant season. THEMES: eternal summer, love, immortality and eternal love through poetry, nature’s beauty

Shakespeare.

recalling memories, friend passed away, depressed, bittersweet memories. theme, that memories of the youth are priceless compensations — not only for many disappointments and unrealized hopes but for the loss of earlier friendsIf everything goes wrong, think of a friend and everything is made better

Shakespeare. this sonnet focuses on the narrator’s own anxiety over growing old. THEMES: age, passing of time, coming to an end, eternal life through poetry, speaker is about to die1st quatrain-Autumn2nd – Twilight- the twilight of his life: his sun has set, and Death is soon upon him. 3rd – dying fire

Shakespeare. Speaker will not come in between true love. True love is fixed and constant. Love can’t be true if it changes for any reason.

In the 6th line, a nautical reference, love is much like the north star to sailors. True love lasts forever. love is timeless, and only death can do it part.The couplet at the end employs a paradoxical conceit. If there is no such thing as true love, the poet says that neither has he ever written, nor has anyone ever experienced true love.

However, because the poem has been written, it means the poet, ultimately, is right about true love.

Shakespeare. His wife is not the most beautiful person, he critiques her throughout the poem but doesn’t seem bothered by her faults, but he still loves her. He loves a more obtainable, real woman. He satirizes traditional Elizabethan love poetry by talking about how his love is nothing as perfect as what everyone else writes about.

Ironic.

Went to Oxford. Loves Penelope but she married another man.

made him very depressed.