Amoretti: Sonnet 56

Edmund Spenser * Track #56 On Amoretti and Epithalamion

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Amoretti: Sonnet 56 by Edmund Spenser

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Three similes for his love’s relationship to him:

tiger – beast hunted
storm – tree blasted
rock – ship ruined

He insists repeatedly that she is fair, but does not explore how the tiger, the storm, or the rock might be fair, preferring to focus on the qualities that contrast with her beauty.

Amoretti: Sonnet 56 Annotated

Fayre ye be sure, but cruell and unkind,
As is a Tygre that with greedinesse
hunts after bloud, when he by chance doth find
a feeble beast, doth felly him oppresse.
Fayre be ye sure but proud and pittilesse,
as is a storme, that all things doth prostrate:
finding a tree alone all comfortlesse,
beats on it strongly it to ruinate.
Fayre be ye sure, but hard and obstinate,
as is a rocke amidst the raging floods:
gaynst which a ship of succour desolate,
doth suffer wreck both of her selfe and goods.
That ship, that tree, and that same beast am I,
whom ye doe wreck, doe ruine, and destroy.

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