In poet Edmund Spencer’s Amoretti series, the idea of immortalization is focused upon greatly, with more focus being allocated towards the future memory. His …show more content…
His treatment of writing shows that memory can primarily be used to bring one back from the past. The narrator constantly refers to events of his past, one by one, creating the image of his presumably late father and the daily obstacles he overcame: “Sundays too my father got up early / and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, / then with cracked hands…”(1-3). He brings this man of the past to life through his detailed memory. He is successful because he allows the readers themselves to envision the character that is his father and create his essence in our own image. The memory of a person serves as a bank of experiences. A location where you can acquire any moment that has passed and brings it back to the present. That is the power that memory holds and remembrance and this is what Hayden hopes to portray within his writing. As long as there is an experience with said person and it is remembered, it will live on