1. To His Love
Edmund Spenser

2. Form & meter Themes Literary Devices Spenser Edmund Paraphrasing
To His Love

3. BY : Edmund Spenser was an English poet
BY : Edmund Spenser was an English poet. He was best known for The Faerie Queene.

4. To His Love One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washed it away:
Again I wrote it with a second hand,
But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.
"Vain man," said she, "that dost in vain assay,
A mortal thing so to immortalize;
For I myself shall like to this decay,
And eke my name be wiped out likewise."
"Not so," (quod I) "let baser things devise
To die in dust, but you shall live by fame:
My verse your vertues rare shall eternize,
And in the heavens write your glorious name:
Where whenas death shall all the world subdue,
Our love shall live, and later life renew."

5. Rhyme Rhythm pentameter Iambic (V/I) Example strand Hand(perfect)
Form&
meter
Example
strand
Hand(perfect)
Rhyme
pentameter Iambic
(V/I)
Rhythm
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6. Assonance Imagery Literal Devices hyperbole Alliteration
Personification
hyperbole
Assonance
Imagery

7. One day I wrote her name upon the strand . . . .
Assonance
One day I wrote her name upon the strand

8. Alliteration
-But came the waves and washed it away. -made my pains his prey. .To die in dust-
.My verse your vertues – -Where whenas death shall all the world subdue. -Our love shall live, and later life renew.

9. Personification . -But came the tide, and my “pains” his prey
- But came the waves and “washed” it away

10. Imagery But came the waves and washed it away
One day I wrote her name upon the strand

11. "Vain man," said she, "that dost in vain assay,
hyperbole
"Vain man," said she, "that dost in vain assay,

12. Theme
Immortality
Love

13. My short response You are making a mistake Your mistake is very big
leave the rest of your feelings on paper
My beach deceives to die
Stepping on writings and wiping this off
And not bother yourself with stepping on it
It is impossible to stay and survive
Go in peace ! My beach is not for eternal writings

14. To His Love