Sonnet+35

=Sonnet 35=

By Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser (Author of the poem which lies below and who has a picture above)

My hungry eyes through greedy covetise, still to behold the object of their pain: with no contentment can themselves suffice, but having, pine, and having not, complain. For lacking it they cannot life sustain, and having it they gaze on it the more: in their amazement like //Narcissus// vain whose eyes him starv'd: so plenty makes me poor. Yet are mine eyes so filled with the store of that fair sight, that nothing else they brook, but loathe the things which they did like before, and can no more endure on them to look. All this world's glory seemeth vain to me, and all their shows but shadows saving she.

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Assonance
MY hungry eyes through greedy covetise (The word eyes rhymes with covetise)

Review Questions
1. Which of Spenser's Sonnets do you like the best? Why?

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2. In Sonnet 35, what do the speaker's eyes desire?

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3. Describe the state the desire produces in him.

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