Imagery of Young Lover in Edmund Spenser’s “Sonnet 75” Edmund Spenser’s poem “Sonnet 75” creates lots of sound images and emotional feelings. The Sonnet describes a man and his lover at the oceanfront “strand,” and he writes her name into the sand. “One day I wrote her name upon the strand,” but the waves wipe out her name, “the waves and washed it away.” The waves wash his writing away, therefore, he writes her name …showed first 75 words of 308 total…

…showed last 75 words of 308 total…of this poem portray that he is trying to expresses his love toward his lover. He keeps trying to write her name into the sand and the tides from the ocean keep erasing it. He desires to expresses his love toward her therefore he decides to use a different method of expression, by writing of her a poem. The symbolic image of this Sonnet is he has succeeded into writing his feelings for her; eternally.