Ronsard

Meaning

Ronsard is praised as the French Homer and Pindar and introduced as the poet whose stanza gives voice to Love’s cosmic agency. Homer and Pindar here are laudatory comparisons for the named French poet, not additional speakers of the quoted stanza.

The verse’s “I” is Love: master of gods, mover of heavens, governor of the world, first hatched from the mass and separator of chaos. Nuysement introduces it after describing matter’s desire for information and its motion through celestial fire. The poem thus supplies an image for his causal account, not proof that all potential forms already exist actually in matter or that the poet independently held the whole chymical doctrine.