Mary Wroth's Poetry

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Mary Wroth was born into a well know family of writers. Her father being Sir Robert Sidney, her uncle Sir Philip Sidney, and her aunt Mary S. Herbert. Inspired by those around her, Mary Wroth became the first Englishwoman to produce to a full length romantic compositions and to compose sequenced sonnets. Compared to her actual love life, Mary Wroth was unhappily married. She states that she was “unworthily married to a jealous husband (page 101)”. The love and romance expressed in her poems and sonnets where probably inspired by the love she witnesses as a child from her parents. In Mary Wroth’s poem “Song”, the speaker describes how hard It is to love men. The speaker speaks as if she is warning her readers, preferably women, how men treat