Opposites attract

As you know April is National Poetry Month.  Since I can't be there with you right now, here is a poem I had planned for us to look over.  It is by Edmund Spencer.  The poem is a paradox: something that seems unlikely or contradictory but is actually true on a deeper/symbolic meaning.  Explain what you believe to be the theme of the poem and select two lines that helped convey that meaning to you.  Do not repeat what the poster prior to you has said.  Remember no credit will be given to plagiarized statements.

(The deadline to post a response is midnight, Monday, April 8, 2013)

Sonnet 30 (Fire And Ice)

My love is like to ice, and I to fire:
how comes it then that this her cold so great
is not dissolv'd through my so hot desire,
but harder grows, the more I her entreat?

Or how comes it that my exceeding heat
is not delayed by her heart frozen cold,
but that I burn much more in boiling sweat,
and feel my flames augmented manifold?

What more miraculous thing may be told
that fire, which all thing melts, should harden ice:
and ice which is congealed with senseless cold,
should kindle fire by wonderful device?

Such is the pow'r of love in gentle mind
that it can alter all the course of kind.