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Sweet Warrior by Edmund Spenser
About the poet:
Edmund Spenser (एडमंड स्पेन्सर)
is an important English poet. He belonged to the 16th century
England. At that time, Queen Elizabeth was ruling over England. So the period
in history is known as the Elizabethan period (एलीझाबेदन पिरीयड).
Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe (ख्रिस्टोफर मार्लो),
Ben Jonson, and Philip Sidney are the major writers of the Elizabethan period.
Edmund Spenser is considered as the first important
poet of the modern English language. Spenserian stanza (स्पेन्सेरीयन स्टँझा) (स्टँझा: कडवे) and Spenserian sonnet (स्पेन्सेरीयन सॉनेट)
(सॉनेट: सुनीत/१४ ओळींची कविता) are the unique
gifts given by Spenser to the English language. The Faerie Queene (फेअरी क्वीन) is his longer poem dedicated to Queen Elizabeth. Amoretti
(अॅमोरेटी) is his famous sonnet sequence and Epithalamion (एपिथॅलेमिअन) is an ode (ओड:
कवितेचा एक प्रकार). Spenser’s both these
works are addressed to his beloved and wife Elizabeth Boyle (एलिझाबेथ बॉइल).
About the poem:
“Sweet Warrior” is a poem written by Edmund Spenser. The poem is written in a
sonnet form. The poem is a part of the sonnet sequence Amoretti.
The poem is 57th sonnet in the collection. The poem is
addressed to his beloved Elizabeth Boyle.
The speaker in the poem addresses his beloved as
“Sweet warrior” (वॉरियर:
योद्धा). The speaker requests
the beloved to stop the war of love. He appeals her that it is the high time to
end this war. Due to continuous fight with her, his powers have become weak,
and his wounds (वुन्ड्स: जखमा)
have become very painful. His heart (हार्ट: हृदय)
has been pierced (पिअर्स्ड:
भेदणे) by thousand arrows (अॅरोज: बाण)
that have been shot through her eyes. And yet she is not ready to stop this
war. So according to him his beloved is very cruel (क्रुएल: निष्ठुर).
He asks her “What joy do you get in defeating him”. He repeatedly asks her to
stop this war so that his wounds will be healed (हील: जखम भरून येणे).
Thus in the poem, the beloved is a warrior and the
lover is a defeated soldier (डिफिटेड
सोल्जर: पराभूत सैनिक). The speaker is
asking her not to play with him the cruel games of love. His appeal is to
accept his love.
Form of the poem:
There are fourteen lines in the poem, so the poem “Sweet Warrior” is a sonnet. In
the Spenserian sonnet 14 lines are divided into three stanzas (08lines each)
followed by a couplet (two lines). Love is a major theme of a sonnet form.
Question Bank:
1. The poem “Sweet Warrior” is written by _____.
2. The poem “Sweet Warrior” is in the form of _____.
3. The poem “Sweet Warrior” is addressed to _____.
4. The poem “Sweet Warrior” is taken from the
collection _____.
5. Edmund Spenser is ______.
6. In the poem, _____ is addressed as “a sweet
warrior”.
7. The speaker/poet appeals his beloved _____.
8. The speaker’s heart is torn due to thousand arrows
shot through _____.
9. According to the speaker, his beloved is _____.
10.
The speaker asks
the beloved to _____ so that all his wounds will heal.
(Answers: 01. Edmund Spenser; 02. sonnet/Spenserian
sonnet; 03. a beloved/ Elizabeth Boyle; 04. Amoretti; 05. an Elizabethan
poet; 06. the beloved; 07.to end the war; 08. The beloved’s eyes; 09. Cruel;
10. make peace)
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