Question

poems by edmund spenser notice how spenser uses vivid imagery to convey ideas about passion and love. sonnet 30 my love is like to ice, and i to fire; how comes it then that this her cold so great is not dissolved through my so hot desire, but harder grows the more i her entreat? or how comes it that my exceeding heat is not delayed by her heart - frozen cold: but that i burn much more in boiling sweat, and fed my flames augmented manifold? what more miraculous thing may be told that fire which all things melts, should harden ice; and ice which is congealed with senseless cold, should kindle fire by wonderful device. such is the powr of love in gentle mind, that it can alter all the course of kind. analyze sonnets annotate: mark the rhyming pair in the first and third lines. then, mark the rhyming pair in the second and fourth lines. identify: what conflict is set up in the first quatrain? what elements represent each side of the conflict? augmented manifold: greatly increased. congealed: solidified. kind: nature.

Explanation:

The question involves analyzing a sonnet by Edmund Spenser, focusing on his use of imagery and rhyme - scheme, which are key aspects of literary analysis.

Answer:

1. Rhyme - scheme annotation: In the first and third lines, the rhyming pair is "ice" and "desire". In the second and fourth lines, the rhyming pair is "great" and "entreat".
2. Conflict identification: In the first quatrain, the conflict is between the speaker's intense love (represented by "fire" and "hot desire") and the beloved's coldness (represented by "ice" and "cold").