Question

What are the silver links in line 35 and how can they chain the poet to his past ?

Answer 1

Here,silver links means a strong chain that bonds it's past to future.



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Answer 2

Edmund Spenser (c. 1552 – 13 January 1599) was an English poet, who wrote such pastorals as The Shepheardes Calendar, Astrophell and Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, but is most famous for the multi-layered allegorical romance, The Faerie Queene.