Amoretti: Sonnet 54

Edmund Spenser * Track #54 On Amoretti and Epithalamion

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Amoretti: Sonnet 54 by Edmund Spenser

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The plea of a confused lover masked as the plea of a frustrated actor who cannot get the audience to connect with him, who cannot “move” them.

A variation on the idea that the world is a stage; here, the beloved is in the audience, watching the speaker “show off” his joys and sorrows. The joys and...

Amoretti: Sonnet 54 Annotated

Of this worlds Theatre in which we stay,
My love lyke the Spectator ydly sits
beholding me that all the pageants play,
disguysing diversly my troubled wits.
Sometimes I joy when glad occasion fits,
and mask in myrth lyke to a Comedy:
soone after when my joy to sorrow flits,
I waile and make my woes a Tragedy.
Yet she beholding me with constant eye,
delights not in my merth nor rues my smart:
but when I laugh she mocks, and when I cry
she laughes, and hardens evermore her hart.
What then can move her? if nor merth nor mone,
she is no woman, but a sencelesse stone.

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