"MEN CALL YOU FAIR" by Edmund Spenser
Channel: English Literature
Date: 21/07/2020

MEN CALL YOU FAIR
“Men Call You Fair” is a sonnet from the volume of poetry, Amoretti. This volume has eighty eight sonnets. Spenser expresses his love for his beloved Elizabeth Boyle, the lady whom he loved and married in 1594. In Men Call You Fair, the poet talks about his concept of beauty in which he does not appreciate external appearance of his beloved but gives more importance to her wit and a chaste character. He praises virtuous mind and a chaste character and reveals that external beauty decays with time but the internal beauty of mind and character remains permanent and cannot be destroyed by the worms as the human body finds its place in the graveyard.