Edmund Spencer compared to Shakespeare Essay

Sonnet 1 by Edmund Spenser and Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare dissent greatly in form, tone, content, meaning, and persona. Shakespeare begins with a rather unflattering attribute My mistress are nothing the likes of the sun while Spenser, praises his love by wishing he were a sustain she was reading.Sonnet 1 by Spenser follows a poetry scheme of his own devising (ababbcbccdcdee) that combines interwoven thoughts. In this sonnet he praises his wifes beauty and attempts to flatter her through conveying the thought that if he could just flummox her touch or even a glance he would rather be a book than what he is now. The tone is that sappy type that almost make s one sick. His talent is consumed in a effort to win over someone that he is already married to. His words large(p) as if they slang a sick desperation in them because something is wrong within the relationship.On the another(prenominal) hand Sonnet 130 by Shakespeare has a point to it. It contains the message that one cannot suppose by looks alone but on what the person is like on the inside. Shakespeare does not praise the womans beauty or her fair voice or her soft touch but at the completion he says that his love is rare and he would not get rid of it for any reason.Spensers sonnets concur intertwined messages that follow his rhyme scheme (ababbcbccdcdee) while Shakespeare uses three quatrains and a couplet which is usually the zinger turning the unhurt sonnet around and changing the meaning. Spenser does not do this however, his thought patter seems to follow one and lonesome(prenominal) one line of thought to praise the woman that he loves and naught else.Shakespeares tone seems to be rather sarcastic until the couplet at the end of his sonnet when he explains that he would rather have her than the most fair woman in the world. It is along the same lines as Dont judge a book by its color. On the other hand Spenser believes that his wife is the most beautiful being in the universe and he relates that he would do anything just to have her look at him or his book of sonnets which he wrote for her.Shakespeare breaks his own form while Spenser adheres to a strict form and rhyme scheme.