Sonnet 67

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Sonnet 67

• Edmund Spenser
• by Cory, Steve, and Carlos

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Edmund Spenser

• c. 1552 1599
• Educated in London
• best known for The Faerie Queene
• Use of 3 quatrains and a couplet for sonnets
• Combined Petrarchan and Shakespearan elements

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When was it Written?

• Written during Elizabethan Era
• Spenser Praised Tutor Dynasty and Elizabeth I
• Golden Age and height of English Renaissance
• Same time Shakespeare was writing

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• The speaker is anonymous and can be anyone
• It could even be Wiz Khalifa
• Intented audience is men pursuing women for love

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What is the Message?

• When trying to get girls dont come on too strong
  at first
• Give the girl some space and she will return when
  comfortable
• Play it cool when the lady does come back

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Story as an Allegory

• a representation of an abstract or spiritual
  meaning through concrete or material forms
  figurative treatment of one subject under the
  guise of another.
• extended metaphor
• presents an idea, principle or meaning, which can
  be presented in literary form
• visual symbolic representation

Allegory of Queen Elizabeth
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Literary Devices
Simile Like as a huntsman after weary chase

• Alliteration
• Strange thing, me seemed, to see a beast so wild

Assonance Seeing the game from him escaped away,
Sits down to rest him in some shady place
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More Literary Terms

• Metaphor
• Deer woman
• Hunter man
• Symbolism
• Brooke symbolizes the needs of the deer and how
  to quench thirst
• Women have needs like the deer

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Relevance to Elizabethan Era

• The Elizabethan era was a time when romanticism
  was popular
• Just like today, men were pursuing women and
  trying to win their love
• Allegories were popular at the time

Wiz Khalifa
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Why Would This poem be important or relevant to a
Modern Audience?
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It is relevant because.

• People still enjoy hearing and listening to love
  stories.

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It is relevant because

• 2) There is and always will be the chasing of
  women by men in stories and reality.

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It is relevant because

• 3) The text and words used in the writing of
  this sonnet during the Elizabethan era, can still
  be understood fairly easily today.