Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Fire and Ice

The sonnet I chose is "Sonnet 30". It it written by Edmund Spenser who is known as one of the greatest writers of all time. The speaker in this sonnet has a hot passion for his love. The problem is that everything he does, turns her more cold. His hot desire for her does not melt her cold heart like fire should. He can not get through to her, and it confuses him. He thinks that fire would melt ice, or at least her cold heart would put out his fire, but it does neither. He states: "Such is the pow'r of love in gentle mind that it can alter all the course of kind." Here he is saying that love can make you do crazy things, and crazier things can happen. 

I honestly do not believe in Edmund Spenser's message. Here he is saying that love makes you do crazy things, which I believe, but I do not believe it is the reason she keeps rejecting him. I honestly think it is somewhat creepy that he keeps trying to pursue in his "hot desire" for her even though she keeps rejecting him. You would think after the first few times a guy would get a hint, but here he is just oblivious to the fact that this girl does not have any interest in him. I have been in this position before, and if a girl does not like you , she will turn away from you completely and turn cold. A girl may play hard to get, but will not persistently shoot a guy down. I would just get weirded out and start to hate the guy if he would not start backing off. 



This video is a song written by Elton John. It is call "When a Woman Doesn't Want You." :)