“My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,Īnd in thy heavens wryte your glorious name.”
The poet’s assertion in this respect is inspired and unequivocal – This conviction is strengthened by the poet’s firm faith in the power of his verse to preserve his love and eternalize her virtues. It is potent enough to enliven her with fame. His love is no base thing to be lost in “dust’.
His conviction of the power of love is sound enough. He does not, however, yield to despair, although the lady makes fun of him for his ‘vaine assay’. He tries to write his lady’s name on the strand, but finds it washed away by the rolling waves of the sea. The present sonnet expresses the poet’s desire to preserve his love. This is the usual theme of the conventional Elizabethan sonnets which are patterned after Petrarch. The central theme of the sonnet, of course, is love. The sonnet marks both the thematic idealism and the technical excellence of the sonnet-series. The sonnet, One day I wrote her name, is one of the graceful, inspired sonnets of the sonnet-series Amoretti, which is supposed to be related to Spenser’s own love-affair with Elizabeth Boyle, whom he married subsequently. Spenser, as a poet, remains great and his sonnets bear out the characteristic excellence of his poetry as well as his originality in the treatment of the sonnet-form in English. Spenser’s sonnet-sequence Amoretti occupies a distinctive position in Elizabethan poetry, although this may not have as much appeal as Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella or Shakespeare’s immortal sonnets, addressed to his young friend. She ‘shall live by fame’ and his verse ‘shall eternise’ her ‘virtues rare’
He asserts that baser elements may decay and die, but his love shall not. In his intense and genuine passion of love, the poet feels confident of making his love ever alive. Yet, sincere love alone has faith and conviction to stand and shine against the inevitable mortality of the world. This seems a vain effort, for the ladylove who is mortal and cannot be immortalized. His attempts to write his lady’s name on the strand were foiled by the high tide of the sea that washed it away. 75 from Amoretti), One day I wrote her name upon the strand, revolves around the poet’s keenness to immortalize his love. My verse shall eternalize your rare virtues and write your glorious name in heaven, whereas death shall subdue all the world, our love shall live and renew later life.” Sonnet 75 Edmund Spenser Theme
Let baser things devise to die in dust, but you shall live by fame. His sonnets belong to a variety of the Elizabethan form and each one consists of three interlinked quatrains (abab bebe cded) rounded off (=brought to a satisfactory conclusion) with a couplet (ee). Through Sonnet No 74 the poet pays compliments to three Elizabeths- his mother, the Queen of England and his beloved. The sonnets of The Amoretti maintain some of the Petrarchan conventions like love’s warfare with its ambush (lying in wait to make a surprise attack), siege ( armed operation to surround and capture a fortress), and archers, and the cruel tyrannical mistress. The Amoretti was printed together with his marriage song Epithalamion and was published in 1595. They describe the course of Spenser’s wooing of Elizabeth Boyle whom he married in 1594. 75 (One day I wrote her name upon the strand) is taken from The Amoretti (‘little loves’) which consists of 79 sonnets.
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