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Analysis of Edmund Spenser’s Sonnet 67
Edmund Spenser’s Sonnet 67 is one of 85 sonnets from Amoretti which was written about his courtship of Elizabeth Boyle.
Edmund spenser sonnet 75Spenser and Boyle were married in 1594. Sonnet 67 uses a hunting themed metaphor common in 16th century England comparing the woman to a deer and the man to a huntsman in pursuit. Sonnet 67 appears to have been inspired by an earlier work by Petrarch, Rima 190, but with a different ending.
In this paper, we will take an in depth look at this work, also commonly referred to as “ Lyke as a Huntsman”.
First, we will take a look at a literal interpretation of Sonnet 67. This piece begins with a huntsman in pursuit.
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His stalked prey, a deer, has gotten away from him. He is tired and sick of spending all of his time hunting this deer and so he sits down in the shade to rest with his dogs and decides to give up his hunt for the deer. But then the deer comes back from the way it had gone to drink from a nearby stream.
The deer