The allusion to Spenser is presumably a strong one, yes?
-- since that's the first line of Amoretti 34, which is
after a Petrarchan simile for love-lorn-ness (ship in
distress), and is a comparison of the kind that gets used
for the complaint of Britomart, who's tempest-tost
emotionally, tho' she's on the shore, in the 3 stanzas at
FQ III.iv.8-10. It may or may not be significant that the
sonnet follows the one (Amoretti 33) on whether or not the
poet can finish his big poem (the one in which Britomart
appears), and where the sequent sonnet's phrase "tost with
troublous fit" seems to find counterparts in the mental
state of Britomart, "tossed long" with "troubled bowels,"
in the first of the three stanzas in question (III.iv.8).
(But I know absolutely nothing about what happens or
comes after the first line of the 3 Spenserian stanzas in
the Foster text--I think a book of poems about
contemporary life in America (?).)
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 23:39:54 -0400
"James C. Nohrnberg" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:10:45 -0500
> "CHRISTOPHER, DR. JOE R." <[log in to unmask]>
>wrote:
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>> In Brett Foster's The Garbage Eater (TriQuarterly
>>Books/Northwestern University Press, 2011), one poem in
>>Spenserian stanzas appears: "Lyke as a ship, that through
>>the Ocean wyde" (22). Three stanzas with a modern
>>setting.
>
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