Sonnet 67
Edmund Spenser by Cory, Steve, and Carlos

Edmund Spenser
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 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

When was it Written?
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Written during
Elizabethan Era
Spenser Praised Tutor
Dynasty and Elizabeth I
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Golden Age and height of English
Renaissance
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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

What is the Message?
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When trying to get girls don’t 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

Story as an Allegory
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 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

Literary Devices
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Alliteration:
Strange thing, me seemed, to see a beast so wild
Assonance:
Simile:
Like as a huntsman after weary chase
Seeing the game from him escaped away,
Sits down to rest him in some shady place

More Literary Terms
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Metaphor:
Deer= woman
Hunter= man
Symbolism:
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Brooke symbolizes the needs of the deer and how to quench thirst
Women have needs like the deer

Relevance to Elizabethan Era
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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

1) People still enjoy hearing and listening to love stories.

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

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