My Love Is Like To Ice
My love is like to ice, and I to fire:
How comes it then that this her cold so great
Is not dissolved through my so hot desire,
But harder grows the more I her entreat?
Or how comes it that my exceeding heat
Is not allayed by her heart-frozen cold,
But that I burn much more in boiling sweat,
And feel my flames augmented manifold?
What more miraculous thing may be told,
That fire, which all things melts, should harden ice,
And ice, which is congeal'd with senseless cold,
Should kindle fire by wonderful device?
Such is the power of love in gentle mind,
That it can alter all the course of kind.
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Who wrote the poem "My Love Is Like To Ice" ?
Edmund Spencer (1552 or 1553 – January 13, 1599)
Edmund Spencer was an English poet, often
considered as one of the greatest poets in the English language. Little is
known about his family and childhood. He attended the Merchant Taylor School
and later studied literature and religion at Cambridge University. Along with
his poetry, he also had a political career, serving various official posts
including a secretary to the Lord Deputy of Ireland. After his first wife died
in 1594, he soon married Elizabeth Boyle, for whom he wrote many love poems.
"My Love Is Like To Ice" explanation
In the poem, the speaker compares his lover
to ice and himself to fire. Despite the differences (or perhaps because of
them), their love for each other grows greater. The poem is a fourteen-line
Spenserian sonnet, pioneered by the poet, consisting of three quatrains with
rhetorical questions and an answering couplet. This sonnet is also known as
“Amoretti: XXX,” or “Sonnet 30,” which was one of 80 sonnets the poet wrote to
celebrate his marriage to his second wife, Elizabeth Boyle.
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