Amoretti

Amoretti

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 main idea of his sonnet.   However; because of some hardships he is facing in his life he is losing his way. In his poem he uses the storms as a way to portray to the reader that is he having trouble in his life and is depressed because of it.   So these storms or life troubles are making it hard to see the stars causing him to fall off of his path taking a course unknown.
Lines 5-9 are basically a continuation of the beginning of his story.   What he is saying during these lines is that he was using the star as a guide however; since this so called storm or the troubles he is facing in his life have displaced him he has to “Wander now in darknesse and dismay” (Spencer).   He is in a state of depression and when this happens you separate yourself from the ones around you and push your loved ones.   He probably does this unintentionally but because separation is an affect of depression he can not help but to do this.   Even though he is aware of the emotional separation that he and his love are facing due to his depression it sometimes seems impossible for things to turn around.   So as the...