Full swing from the frightfully distorted love of the Ash Wednesday Sonnet, after the long suffering and final submission of the intervening sonnets, we arrive to the Easter and Resurrection sonnet, as clearly seen in the opening lines about Christ’s victory over death and sin in the Resurrection.
The Christian teaching on love of our neighbors now governs the poet’s love for his lady.
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