describe the couplet "My loue is now awake out of her dreams (s),
and her fayre eyes like stars that dimmed were
With darksome cloud, now shew theyr goodly beams
More bright then Hesperus his head doth rere."
Answers
The lines are taken from Edmund Spencer's poem 'Epithalamion.'
Explanation:
'Epithalamion' is a poem written by Edmund Spencer. The poem is a dedication to his wife on their wedding day.
Spencer married the love of his life 'Elizabeth Boyle.'
The poem is structred in twenty-four stanzas, each representing an hour of their wedding day and also narrates the chronological events of 'THEIR DAY.'
In the given lines, the poet is describing her lover after she woke from her sleep 'My loue is now awake out of her dreams'. The poet is describing her the beauty of her lover's eyes, his lover's eyes are 'fayre, like stars.'
Here the poet is alluding the brightness of her lover's eyes with that of 'Hesperus' Hersperus (Orpheus) is an evening star found in Greek mythology. So the poet is suggesting that her lover's eyes shine brighter than Hersperus.
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