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“One Day I Wrote Her Name ”

“One Day I Wrote Her Name ”. Menegazzo - Virardi. One Day I Wrote Her Name.

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“One Day I Wrote Her Name ”

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  1. “One Day I WroteHerName” Menegazzo - Virardi

  2. One Day I WroteHerName One day I wrote her name upon the strandABut came the waves and washed it away: BAgain I wrote it with a second hand, ABut came the tide and made my pains his prey. B"Vain man," said she, "that dost in vain essayCA mortal thing so to immortalize; DFor I myself shall like to this decay, CAnd eke my name be wiped out likewise.“ D"Not so," quoth I; "let baser things deviseETo lie in dust, but you shall live by fame; FMy verse your virtues rare shall eternize, EAnd in the heavens write you glorious name: FWhere, whenas Death shall all the world subdue, GOur love shall live, and later life renew.“ G

  3. RhymeScheme The rhyme scheme follows the usual pattern of Elizabethan sonnet as a matter of fact the rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg

  4. MetricalStructure In the octave the poet explains his feelings and talks about destructive properties of time . In the sestet poet would find a solution, he is hopeful that his verses will be able to eternize the memory of the beauty of the beloved and transfigure her into a heavenly being. “One Day I Wrote Her Name” is composed by an octave and a sestet.

  5. The contrastbetween Time andPoetry Time - Destroys feelings Poetry (love) - Will eternize feelings immortalize, eternize, again , mortal , decay, fame , heaven. The principalthemesmentioned in thesonnet are: The expressionsthat indicate theinevitability of time and also indicate the power ofpoetrytogiveeternal life

  6. The use of words In the first quatrain the poetcreated a veryrealisticimage of whathefeels; Spenser begins the sonnet with a symbolic act on the part of a lover. “One day I wrote her name upon the strand But came the waves and washed it away AgainI wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide and made my pains his prey” The poet highlights this act with the repetition of certain words like the verbs “ wrote” and “ came” andadjectiveslike “one day” and “ again”

  7. EtymologicalFigures There are someetymologicalfigures in Spenser’s sonnet Theyconsist of the repetition of some wordsthat are notindenticalbuttheyconvey the sameeffect. At line 5 : "Vain man that dost in vain essay At line 6: A mortal thing so to immortalize; At line 14: Our love shall live, and later life renew."

  8. Time andpoetry Readersmightnormallyexpect a contraddictionbetween lover/lady butthissonnetischaracterisedby the contraddictionbetween time andpoetry (love). Thismakes the poem of universalvalue.

  9. Life vs Death The central contrast in the sonnet is expressed as Life/Death “A mortal thing so to immortalize; For I myself shall like to this decay, And eke my name be wiped out likewise” These are the words of the woman that wants the man understand that everything is mortal and so it is not possible to write the name on the sand because it will disappear, as everything in the world.

  10. Forever or never “One day I wrote her name upon the strand /But came the waves and washed it away” Write the name on the sand shows the wish to transform something mortal into something immortal. Because when the waves cames, the name will disappear. “And in the heavens write you glorious name” The poet wants to write the lady’s name in the heavens because he wants to make his love eternal and with his verse he want to eternize the virtue of his beloved. So this is something eternal, that remains forever.

  11. Universe WATER—> things that decay EART —> things that recur AIR —> higher, more refined things According to the Renaissance cosmology the universe was made of four elements. In this text we could find three.

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