One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand
------by Edmund Spenser
裘浙英
• This poem is the sonnet 75 from Amoretti(
小爱神)， which is wrote to his fiancee,
Elizabeth
For I myself shall like to
this decay,
因我本人也会玉殒香销，
And eke my name be wiped out likewise.
我的名字同样云散烟消，”
Not so (quoth I), let baser things devise
To die in dust, but you shall live by fame:
• The order of the verse is the development and change of love.
• The rhyme like the tide
e.g.
One day | I wrote | her name | upon | the strand,
But came | the waves | and wash | ed it | away:
plan
said
the thing considered as worthless
To die, in dust, but you shall live by fame:
葬身地 in the dust:死了
My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,
last and exist for ever
• It's one of the most beautiful love poem in the world
One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
seashore
But came the waves and washed it away:
Again I wrote it with a second hand,
But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.
animal hunted for food
Vain man(said she)) that doest in vain assay
conceited [kən'siːtɪd]
try,attempt
A mortal thing so to immortalize,
renew later life
One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washed it away:
Again I wrote it with a second hand,
But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.
一日我将伊名书于沙滩， 可海浪打来将伊名冲掉： 我又第二遍把名字写好， 但潮水冲来吞噬我辛劳。
Vain man(said she) that doest in vain assay
A mortal thing so to immortalize,
“自负的人”伊说：“你是徒 劳，
妄使世俗之物不朽永茂；
• love and sea image Spenser's love poem seldom separate from the ocean image. All change except the true love.
Feature
• Metaphor.The use of image is the most highlight in this poem. The wave's ebb and flow symbolizes the human's life. The image --sea is contraditory, both the living and death. Only the love won't change, because poem makes it eternal.
My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,
And in the heavens write your glorious name.
“不, 让低贱之物策划死 亡，
而你将以美名永存世上 ：
我的诗将使你美德不朽 ，
并将你的英名书于宇宙 "
Where, whenas Death shall
all the world subdue,
死亡纵将征服整个世界，
Out love shall live, and later life renew.
我们可获新生爱情不灭。 ”
Theme
• time and immortality. the transience of life, and the decline of youth and beauty.
try, attempt
give endless life
For I myself shall like to this decay,
lose power and vigor like this
And eke my name be wiped out likewise.
also
similarly
Not so (quoth I), let baser things devise manage,
• First-person view The poet put himself in the center of the poem, to express his situation, emotion, and faith.
Structure and Rhyme
• This sonnet can be read in the tructure of three quatrains and a couplet. And the rhyme is abab bcbc cdcd ee
Thank you!
Again | I wrote | it with | a sec | ond hand,
But came | the tyde, | and made | my pains | his pray.
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. Vain man(said she) that doest in vain assay A mortal thing so to immortalize, For I myself shall like to this decay, And eke my name be wiped out likewise. Not so (quoth I), let baser things devise To die in dust, but you shall live by fame: My verse your virtues rare shall eternize, And in the heavens write your glorious name. Where, whenas Death shallall the world subdue, Out love shall live, and later life renew.
And in the heavens write your glorious name.
Where, when as Death shall all the world subdue,
[səb'djuː]
defeat
Out love shall live, and later life renew.