Amoretti
Submitted by kerricarter on April 17, 2008
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Sir Edmund Spencer was a wonderful poet who in this particular poem was writing about his love. This poem was originally Petrarch’s “Rima,” 189 but became Sonnet 34; a collection of poems after his second marriage (Zaragoza 1). The purpose of this essay is to try to get into the mind of the author and show the reader what the author was going through when writing this poem. It is to also meant to explain the meaning behind the similes he is portraying in his poem.
The beginning of his story is told in lines 1-4 of his poem. During these first four lines Sir Edmund Spencer is using a simile or comparing himself to a ship sailing through the ocean. He then goes onto say that the ship is using a star in the sky as a direction for the path he is taking. What he means by this is that the star that he is using as a guide is actually another simile which is his love the...