Can someone please explain Sonnet 75 by Spenser?

Question

ONE day I wrote her name upon the strand,
but came the waves and washèd it away:
again I wrote it with a second hand,
but came the tide, and made my pains his prey.
Vain man, said she, that dost in vain assay,
a mortal thing so to immortalize,
for I my self shall like to this decay,
and eek my name be wipèd out likewise.
Not so, (quoth I) let baser things devise,
to die in dust, but you shall live by fame:
my verse your virtues rare shall eternise,
and in the heavens write your glorious name.
Where whenas death shall all the world subdue,
our love shall live, and later life renew.

Answer 1

This is a truly beautiful piece. At a quick glance, here's my brief analysis:

The man obviously is in love with a woman. In his love, he seeks to find a way to "immortalize" her, her beauty and her existence as it refers to her presence with him.

But no matter how hard he tries, he cannot succeed in this task. And the woman seeks to console him in his frustration.

She makes the points that one can only achieve such a task by holding dear their memories and what it was they experienced in life.

Time will come when Heaven serves as the ultimate immortality. And their love will not fade, even overshadowing death itself.

Answer 2

Sonnet 75

Answer 3

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Neither one of these poems is by Spenser or Shakespeare. Spenser's Sonnet 75 begins "One day I wrote her name upon the strand," and it rhymes. The thing you posted uses different words and doesn't rhyme. Shakespeare's Sonnet 147 begins "My love is as a fever, longing still," and it also rhymes. The thing you posted uses different words and doesn't rhyme; it's not even a poem -- it's not written in distinct lines, but just as a paragraph of prose. If your assignment is to compare the two poems by Spenser and Shakespeare, you will need to begin by getting the actual text of both poems, not whatever it is the you have posted here.

Answer 4

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Can someone please explain Sonnet 75 by Spenser?
ONE day I wrote her name upon the strand,
but came the waves and washèd it away:
again I wrote it with a second hand,
but came the tide, and made my pains his prey.
Vain man, said she, that dost in vain assay,
a mortal thing so to immortalize,
for I my self shall like to this...

Answer 5

I wrote my lover's name in the sand at the beach. The tide erased what I had written. My lover said I was vain to try to make her name immortal because she herself would die eventually, and then her name would die also. I told her that I would make her name famous in a poem, so that people will remember her.