Read the following poem and comment on its theme and imagery. How does the imagery and juxtapositioning of images help create the poem's theme. Enjoy SONNET 30 by Edmund Spenser. (Deadline to comment is midnight, Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010)My love is like to ice, and I to fire;
How comes it then that this her cold so great
Is not dissolved through my so hot desire,
But harder grows the more I her entreat?
Or how comes it that my exceeding heat
Is not delayed by her heart frozen cold,
But that I burn much more in boiling sweat,
And feel my flames augmented manifold?
What more miraculous thing may be told
That fire which all thing melts, should harden ice,
And ice, which is congealed with senseless cold,
Should kindle fire by wonderful device?
Such is the power of love in gentle mind,
That it can alter all the course of kind.
1 comment:
The writer uses the image of love being like ice and fire. This shows that the man's love for the woman burns like fire, but the woman is cold in her love with him. He tries to melt her ice, but the ice ends up hardening. These two forces are causing their love to become mixed up.
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