ENGS 021 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Sonnet 47, Jousting, Edmund Spenser
12 Nov 2017
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Roman influence was not welcomed by the english i. e. anglican church. Og stella penelope devereux, who ultimately marries lord robert rich. Yearning to be able to articulate his feelings i. e. courtly love/unrequited love. Much more secular than other works of time. I don"t need to do all this other stuff that previous poets have done, but i"m gonna do it anyways and do it better. Likening of commerce/wealth to love cupid/death wound foreshadows that things aren"t gonna go great. Exasperation; he"s being scorned and dishing back the contempt. Moon image of constant love &, in the context, inconsistency. Restlessness because he has yet to attain the object of his affection. He begins to talk/exacerbates his masculinity to her despite her lack of presence. Lines 1-4 her eyes are black & he is a slave to them. Lines 6-9 my life can only improve by your absence. Ambiguous because stella must be kept obscure.
