The Central Theme of the poem: A Renouncing Of Love.

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      The theme of the Sonnet is the angry renunciation of love by the frustrated lover. He has enough bitter experience of the piercing pang of love in A Renouncing of Love. He chose to renounce his love altogether and to seek shelter in the wide scholarship of great master in order to perfect his intellect and wisdom. Love has its domination over younger people and there idle brains. There for the poet bids farewell to love and all its forces. His long forbearance of the deep wombs of love is foolish enough.

 Renouncing Of Love

     The poet there for renounces love and it can have no more hold upon him. Though it's darts are too cruel and tormenting, but the poet will never yield before love. Thus the basic of the Sonnet on the central focus centres around the lover's violent mood of anger and despair which the depiction of love possibly caused. Love has its domination over younger people and there idle brains. There for the poet bids farewell to love and all its forces. His long forbearance of the deep wombs of love is foolish enough.

      The poet lover remain no longer in the mirage, once he had committed himself to his beloved. The arrow of love rifts his heart. This burning in love not only make him realise, love’s futility and feebleness but also makes him strong-hearted and courageous enough. "The poet proposes disdain toward his beloved to entangles the ‘young hartes’ and use her authority over ‘idle youth’." Emphatically, he quoted.

      The sonnet Renouncing of Love confess the conventional Petrarchan characteristics in which the lover’s intense passion and pain, hope and despair are illustrated with superb excellency. One of the prominent feature of Elizabethan Sonnet is the singleness of emotion and subject matter. The composition of Petrarchan sonnet also gains a harmony in the technique. The sonnet conclude with a couplet and here it differs from conventional Petrarchan sonnet. Here are the rhyme scheme of : abab, abab, cddcee.