Spenser was a
great poet of Elizabethan age .The Amoretti is a collection of sonnet
it is a poem of fourteen lines Morality of human being and immorality
of love is the main theme of this poem. Man’s efforts are useless
because it is God’s wish to sweep away everything but true love and
feelings will never be wiped away. Love is also found into the next
life. So the life will be renewed this idea remains at the centre of
the poem.
One day the poet
was on the strand with his beloved .He wrote her name there but the
waves came and washed it away. Again he wrote her name and again it
was washed his efforts were in vain. His beloved saw that her lover
wrote her name twice .The name was washed twice .She knew these
efforts were useless because her name is mortal She said the wished
her existence be also wiped out. Poet said let small and trivial
things perish according to God’s wish but he wished his beloved
should live by fame. The world would be destroyed but they would live
by their love and would go the heaven.
The sonnet gives
very fine end .All things may perish or destroyed but love will not
things are mortal .but the love is not the contrast is shown by
worldly life and heavenly life. If love is true the lovers would
find heaven and their life also renewed. The poet is representative
of common man we try to immortalize our name but God’s wish is to
destroy everything but love is a feeling not a thing or an objective
so people will continue to come and go but love will remain forever.
