Friday 15 November 2019

English Literature - One Day I Wrote Her Name Poem -by Edmund Spencer- Notes -- SUMMARY


1. Q. Critically appreciate the poem “One Day I Wrote Her Name…”.

Ans:    “One Day I Wrote Her Name..” is a sonnet written by Edmund Spencer.  This poem reveals the workmanship of Spencer in Sonnet writing.  The poem is enriched with beautiful language. Richness of the melody is a remarkable feature of this poem.  The quatrains have independent rhymes.

            The Sonnet reveals his love towards Elizabeth Boyle.  Spencer says that one day he wrote his beloved’s name on the seashore.  But, the waves came and washed away her name.  He wrote her name for the second time.  But a big tide made his efforts futile.  Looking at his wasteful efforts, his beloved laughed and said that it was not possible to make her name permanent.  She further said that she did not herself want to be immortal.  Hence, she asked Spencer to stop his efforts.  But, Spencer said that her virtues should not go unrecognized.  Hence, he wanted to make her virtues permanent by writing poetry on her.  He felt that her name would be written even in heaven because of his poetry.  He believes that if death controls everything, love will make their life grateful and fresh.

            This poem reveals the highest philosophy of Spencer that life will be controlled by death, but love makes the human life grateful and fresh. 

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